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RE: All I Am Asking
seafood: Your line of questioning appears to ask nothing of yourself, which is the subject of your concern, right? Doesn't that seem to be the root of your problem? Aren't you assuming that there must be a group involved in your personal safety? Why is that? Are you attacked often? If so, how exactly is it that you feel safe enough to spend time asking these questions? Wait - is that just fear by another name?
I have grown up in a very safe society and have not ever been attacked. Nor do I fear it to any great degree. But this is because of institutions such as a police force, and a standing army, both services provided by a government. I have heard a couple of anarchists talking about other ways to satisfy the need for safety. Yes, I threw out a little barb to get the discussion going but I really was quite interested to hear about how anarchism might work in practice.
The error, IMO, is thinking that anarchism is something that has to be implemented or practiced. Anarchists are not saying governments do not provide services. They are not saying that they know how to create a utopia. They are pointing out reality and irrational arguments. An atheist can acknowledge that religious people and institutions provide some good to the world, that doesn't mean they have to accept that religion as legitimate "truth." The anarchist merely points out that definitionally many of the institutions people defend (people called "Statists) are violent and aggressive and anarchists ASK whether it is possible to satisfy those same needs in a voluntary way and seeks to prove that it is possible. Statists assume it is not possible without serious inquiry. A non-anarchist simply accepts that because someone has power and renders a service that it is legitimate no matter how little choice is involved (e.g. referring to institutions that have a force-based monopoly as if you had any choice in choosing their services), how little experimentation and variety, how little technology, and no matter how horrifying, irrational, and lacking in evidentiary support their claims are.
In reality you practice anarchism on a daily basis, anytime you do something without someone telling you, that is a form of anarchy, you just don't realize it, but anything you do that you were never told to do is Anarchy, anything you do because someone tells you to, is not, unless you agreed to those term without coercion. Also the Government monopolies, such as LE and Military are not there for your protection, even in the Government system they have ruled it in their courts, you just have to look a little harder. So Governments do not make you safe, if anything, Governments make you less safe, through many ways, from policies to statutes they make to violate your rights.
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