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Quote by: Domino  No one has power that is not given to them. When no one grants power to the people you describe, they cannot progress beyond the common conman. This has nothing to do with those who wish for power, and everything to do with the society in which they live. If that society is gullible and/or poorly taught in critical examination, power can be amassed.
In an anarchy, the counter to anything you wish countered is you. |
But that assumes that everyone is of equal ability. If I am a person fated to have MS, I can not counter the ability of a 300 pound, healthy, thief who takes advantage of his advantage and steals my food. I starve, he eats what he wants. In anarchy, there is no coersive state power to tell him he can't steal my food. There is only the hope that my neighbor is either 1) not so busy protecting his food from the same guy that he can't help me or 2) not so impressed with that guys power that he figures it is better to wash his car so he will take enough food for both of them. Anarchy counters nothing. Anarchy has no power to protect the weak. It may aim to do this, but it has no power to do it.