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RE: A practical problem for the Anarchist and New Age Voluntarists (and any other starry-eyed idealist). (featuring @vuyusile as author)
So how would the glorious revolution march forward on the shoulders of anachism and voluntarism in the absence of state coercion, and arrest this state of affairs and bring substantive liberty and equality to all those that live as both victims and perpetrators of the violence represented in these statistics?
Well, I don't endorse the Tinfoiled Vigilante but your enquiry is rather silly. All these statistics occured under state control, not under anarchy. You can safely say that these problems are created from a police state, not the other way around. It will be silly to assume that these things will be worse under a free state. In my book violence produces violence and the state is pretty darn violent.
Only if you don't understand that correlation does not equal causation...
It would actually be silly to assume these things would not be worse under a free state. People don't magically get better, all the motivations that cause violence now will still be there. In fact, there would be more since without the threat of punishment violence becomes a great way to improve one's own standing!