--- In [email protected], Jon Roland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The key point is that "anarchy" only works among members of species that > operate only as unorganized individuals. As they develop the ability or > tendency to organize into cooperative groups that operate according to > coordinated, joint strategies, everything changes. Then groups of > individually weaker individuals can combine to overcome the strongest > individual, unless that individual also organizes a group around >him.
The company that I work for is a "cooperative group that operates according to coordinated, joint strategies", and it competes with other such groups on a daily basis. Why is there no violent gang warfare between us? Could it be that civility persists because companies are VOLUNTARY cooperatives instead of COERCIVE protection rackets? > From competition among individuals the species transitions into > competition among groups. > > Our brains certainly don't free us from natural law. They only allow us > to develop tools to intensify the group rivalries. That's funny: my brain has developed tools that allow me to debunk nonsensical statements such as the one above. Do you really believe that the Human species is only capable of continual warfare? > A properly designed constitution, such as the U.S. Constitution, does > /not/ give monopolistic power to government. It /divides/ power into > numerous levels, states, counties, branches, houses, courts, > departments, and officers, precisely to prevent excessive or unbalanced > concentrations of power in the "same hands". Part of the supervision > needed is to make sure they don't unite as a single faction against the > people. On the other hand, the people are supposed to unite into > supervisory groups: associations, parties, militia units, grand and > trial juries, etc. They are not supposed to be unorganized. Part of the > supervision needed is to make sure those supervising groups remain > strong and united. Remember, the Founders expected militia to always be > able to defeat the regular military. You have no faith in the stability of voluntary organizations, and yet you depend on them to keep a coercive organization in check. Do you see a problem here? ---Sasan
