You are viewing a single thread.
View all comments
2 points

The vast majority of humans are actually nice, altruistic and not selfish if you treat them with respect. And hence anarchism would not resolve in everyone killing each other.

permalink
report
reply
1 point

Problem is you need more than the “vast majority” to be nice before you feel safe.

permalink
report
parent
reply
0 points

Absolutely correct. It would be the people who are in power now, building gangs and robbing the weak.

Anarchism is a schoolyard without teachers. Most kids are ok and will treat each other with respect.

But if you ever were molested in a dark corner of said schoolyard you know how important oversight is.

In an Anarchist world, it would be traumatized/autistic people like me running around with guns and shooting everyone who so much as touches another person on sight.

permalink
report
parent
reply
0 points

In an Anarchist world, it would be traumatized/autistic people like me running around with guns and shooting everyone who so much as touches another person on sight.

Genuine question: Why? What circumstances in an “Anarchist world” would cause this behaviour?

Or the other way: If you feel like this, what in our current system stops you from acting out?

permalink
report
parent
reply
-1 points

Not in my experience.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Asklemmy

!asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Create post

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it’s welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Icon by @Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de

Community stats

  • 11K

    Monthly active users

  • 3.4K

    Posts

  • 72K

    Comments