Post
Topic
Board Politics & Society
Re: How long would it take for Anarchy to start working?
by
Hawker
on 21/11/2013, 19:45:41 UTC
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Of course not; the reason why I cut off the rest of your reply is because the first two sentences is where you made an error.

Here's how rights work: you say, "I want the right to enforce my beliefs on you; I will extend this right to you if you extend this right to me."  Then I will either say, "Okay, this sounds reasonable, you can enforce your beliefs on me if you let me enforce my beliefs on you", or I will say, "No, sorry, I'd rather you didn't enforce your beliefs on me, therefore I will not enforce my beliefs on you."

Now, when you say, "I have the right to force my morals on another.  You also have this right," you've assumed a position of authority in which I have no say in whether or not you or I have this right.  This is not how a right works; you don't simply get to decide what rights everyone will have.

About female genital mutilation: you've assumed that you have the right to allow or disallow this.  People are perfectly capable of making these decisions; the point isn't to force people not to with the threat of violence, the point is to enlighten people with knowledge so they can make the right decision.  This is the difference between you, the authoritarian, and me, the libertarian.  I'm sorry, but I don't like your system at all; it does not encourage intelligence or liberty, it only encourages fear and obedience.

So you will allow female genital mutilation.  I assume the same logic applies to honour killings, bride burning and the like.

If that is what anarchy requires, then I don't see it ever "working."