Ed Leafe wrote: > On Sep 6, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Kenneth Kixmoeller/fh wrote: > >>> IMO, the fatal flaw here is that it assumes that all individuals have >>> 'good' flowing out of them. >> It seems to me that all extremist (that is to say "simplistic") >> philosophies suffer from a similar flaw: believing that others >> believe as they do, and if they don't, they should. Which leads to >> "they must." > > > Exactly. You take some reasonable general notions (people are good), > and extrapolate that to unreasonable extremes. It's just another form > of fundamentalism. > > -- Ed Leafe >
In that case I could say that govt from the top also assumes that those who command have society's best interests in mind. And THAT is also a 'simplistic' philosophy. As is the one that says that majority must be right... or rule, plain stupid. Anarchism makes no such an assumption, it just proclaims that individuals should have the right to organize themselves from the bottom up. That does not mean no law (or no crime) it means that a group of people who live nearby associate to form a community and they consensuate laws and behaviors, then they interact with another community and both communities agree (or not) on a certain set of behaviors between them, and so on. No "terms" of representation, that means that whenever a community thinks the people that represents them don't anymore then they kick them off, no need to wait for their mandates to expire, no mandates. If a community wants out of a group of communities then it does so immediately, and the same happens with individuals (I guess then, your civil war wouldn't have happened. Now would it?). This form of organization is inherently different with actual forms of organization in which people are co opted to obey laws they never agreed to. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
