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Old 11-03-2008, 05:48 PM   #184
PinstripesAndPithHelmets
 
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Originally Posted by JCC
He's not. There's two agendas:

1. The Anarchist relief effort was decentralized, entirely democratic and entirely voluntary. Anarchic.

2. You said that an Anarchist community wouldn't know what to do and wouldn't be able to react to such a situation. That Anarchist community (and they are a community, albeit a small one) did.
So you're going to extrapolate, from the actions of a tiny, tiny political minority, a justification for how the world at large should work? Why not all just go live in a fucking hippie commune, then? Honestly, do you even THINK about the repercussions of such a change in the sociological current of events?

How many people would starve in the mass transition from our current system to anarchy? How much rioting, looting, and violence would take place once authority was decentralized? Who would stop all of that violence? Lack of medicine? Destruction of transport and national infrastructure? All of it, how would your "society" cope? What about the people who don't share your ideals? What do we do about them?

You seem to be, de facto, advocating a sacrifice of many, many people simply to see your own ideal, decentralized agenda put into place. After all, if anarchy reigns, and we revert to some fucking ridiculously narrow regional economy, thereby destroying the network of infrastructure that ties the world together, what could possibly result but mass death and suffering?

Are you sure you want all of that to come to pass? Think carefully, because if you answer "yes", I'd like to know how you're different from any whacked out dictator with delusions of grandeur that came before you.
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