People who claim to be Anarchists grind my gears. Anyone who genuinely believes that an anarchy is ideal is either wholeheartedly committed to a childish social movements (i.e. the skater punks) without giving it any thought for themselves or seriously has not used their ability to reason in their taking this political stance. I can understand a socialist's complete opposition to capitalism, maybe even the philosophical arguments for communism, as absurd as they are, but anarchy is against all logic.
It is hard to talk about this in a small amount of space, so I will only state a single and very important point. Many people seem to hate all types of law enforcement. They believe that law enforcement, or in some cases justice in general (*laughs*) is a bad thing. Just because they have recieved a speeding ticket when driving over the plainly posted limit, they believe that all cops are out to get well-behaved law-abiding citizens. Most of these people that I have encountered personally want an anarchy to replace the enforced law that we have.
What could be accomplished by an absence of civil law? Would the vast amount of murderers in prison suddenly realize that it is wrong to kill people now that the law does not tell them that it is so? Would all of the evil in the country suddenly become good? That would be impossible to argue. It is painfully obvious that, without law enforcement, the current curruption in our land would do nothing but multiply in curruption and lawlessness (pardon the pun).
What could be accomplished by absence of civil law is an apparent increase in morality. Without a law to compare their actions to, the bad things committed would seem less negative. Without a law that forbids murder, whether murdering is actually morally wrong or not would be in question. The anarchists would get what they want, people would no longer be doing bad things anymore. However, the deeds being done would be equally destructive to life and peace (as if peace would have a meaning) as they were before the abolishment of law enforcement.
A land without law and enforcement of law is a land without freedom. Free nations always have laws. Even in the hypothetical case of anarchy, there would undoubtedly be a force that rises within the non-government that in some way could win the respect of the rest of the non-citizens and eventually enforce some unspoken law. "You cannot eat the big guys grapes" would be the the first rule that eventually leads to the destruction of this lawless bliss.
Yes, if you have not encountered a hater of civil structure, they do exist and they grind my gears.
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I will ever be in debt to the wonderful police and other figures of authority and keepers of justice in this country. That is why I, Amy Kerley can walk on the sidewalk safely and feel safer because of these great people I can rest at night knowing I have someone to count on for protection. There may be a few that abuse their power but that is not reason enough to have no enforcement of law. If Anarchists and such people who toy with the idea of anarchy would realize that if their stereo or car got stolen or they got shot who would plead your case or protect them?
i think my german profesor said it best that those people who believe they are anarchists and want organized anarchy are the biggest idiots out there. The idea of organized movement of anarchy goes against the meaning of the word anarchy which they enjoy to shout loudly. he also said they should be slapped on site but i'm not suggesting that it would be a good thing to do
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