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RE: Psychopath Makes Absurd Proposition To Conscious Anarchist In The Street - A Dialogue
Understanding the violent psychopath.
A psychopath trying to extort money would pistol whip you first and then demand money if you don't want to die.
Voluntarist : hey! that's violating the NAP
Psychopath: I’ll pull this trigger! I will! - He doesn't listen to your words, or threaten you any more.
He pulls the trigger..
You die.
'...just sayin....'
Thanks. Point well taken. The thing is, I was trying to somewhat merge the order giver with the order follower. So, for example, a politician and a cop. I did this just to simplify things for the sake of a short, easy to read dialogue.
Also, you might be right. In any given situation like that, the psychopath would likely pull the trigger, rather than using a verbal threat.
However, in the wider context of society as a whole, the violent "ruling class" cannot rule simply by "pulling enough triggers", so to speak. They can't rely simply on violence. They much prefer that people willingly comply and act like slaves, rather than having to crack the whip. Kind of a "velvet glove" tyranny like in Brave New World.
In short, tyranny over the mind is their preferred method of control overall, rather than explicit violence, although violence is used sometimes. I was trying to convey both of these aspects of control, in an extremely abbreviated manner.
Anyway, thanks for stopping in and for the thoughtful comment.
I understand exactly what you meant to portray, and this is a perfect example of ideology not surviving realty (imo).
Using your scenario above...
Instead of pulling the trigger and asking for his money, he asks for his obedience instead. (threat of killing him/his family etc).
Now we have one psychos and one follower...now multiply it and we have authority through coercion...
My idealism of younger years has changed to a more pragmatic look at the world...
...The 4% of socio/pschcho's can never be excluded from the equation.
For voluntarism to work ( as understand the ideology), it needs to be without the manipulators of men in the world ...and this will never happen - no matter how much an ideology wants it to be the case.
(Like communism working - if only it wasn't for those pesky human drives of ambition, and freedom, kind of thing...)
Absolutely - it requires less effort from them. (lazy bastards!)..But that is the extended result of the coercion, not the start of the coercion..
Don't accuse me of thoughtful comments, I'll get triggered!
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Yes, you're right. There will always be some psychopaths to deal with. However, they're vastly outnumbered. For voluntarism to work, people just have to ignore the psychopaths immoral wishes. This would render them relatively harmless.
Trigger more thoughtful comments, please! :)