• Prunebutt@feddit.de
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    The self-defensive mechanisms established by the community I live in.

    Anarchism doesn’t mean that humans can’t form societal structures. It just means that decisions are made bottom-up instead of top-down.

    Hierarchical society doesn’t stop anyone with “higher rank” from claiming my house e.g. to build a highway or coal mine.

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      How would an anarchist society stop someone from claiming your house to build a highway or a coal mine? “The self-defensive mechanisms” is just police again you just call it differently and it can do whatever it likes.

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        No, the self-defense mechanisms aren’t the same thing as “police”, since the former is structured bottom-up and the other one is top-down.

        An anarchist society would be organized democratically so that the people affected by policies have a say in these decitions proportional to howeit affects them.

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          So when you have 150 people in a society and 80 vote for people with red hair should be burned as witches what happens then?

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            I guess then the people with red hair will be burned. I don’t think that’s a realistic scenario, though.

            If a state claims that a minority group deserves less/no rights and can be harmed without repercussions, what happens then?

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            People with red hair would be burned, but to get to that point you have serious assumptions. That’s akin to saying “what if in a Utopia, everyone decided to kill themselves for fun?” It’s unrealistic and purely serves to derail the conversation against Democracy.