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As I tell my kids when they fuss about cleaning a mess: If you have time to scream, you have time to clean.

A culture wants it less and accepts it less, so they make new laws. Often cultures evolve and modernize by following the precedent set by the most successful competing culture. By most successful, the one demonstrating the happiest and freest people.

Yes! (though the ref doesn’t have more rights.)
People cannot cooperate w/o mutually agreed rules, enforced by mutually agreed referees (also abiding by same rules) to allow scale.
There will ALWAYS be “ruling classes”, so let’s aim for meritocracy.

Yes, other nations will step in and have done so historically. There are morally superior beliefs that prevail and we should be thankful that they do. This is how we all evolve and advance. Western law and governance is an achievement.

So, there is a difference between governance and having rulers. America got it mostly right. Look into what the founders had to say about rulers vs having a society governed by moral laws to protect rights given by God (not by man, which can be taken).

“Unchecked power always ends this way”
yes exactly, ANARCHY

Many have been killed by religion, but that’s also a lack of law and order. Modern western law is based on Christian beliefs. You cannot separate morality from law. They are one in the same. Morality arises from religious beliefs. Religion can modernize.

Law competes, just like everything else. We don’t have a one world government. In the USA, you don’t like the laws of one state, you fix it or move. People are government. Do not anthropomorphize government. Yes, corruption exists, that’s not law.

Much of the first world is very sheltered. We should all count our blessings.

But I appreciate the conversation.

I believe the gap here is too far for me to bridge. I’m sorry.

The Not So Wild, Wild West is pure, unscalable nostalgia. I do not support anarchy. I was a fan back in the day, but I’ve come to learn that it’s just not realistic. Honestly, what you all are fantasizing about as anarchy isn’t really anarchy at all.

Laws work best when we can keep the good and repeal the bad. It’s one way we can experiment and see which morals are better for us all.

The irony is that much of what utopian anarchists talk about isn’t real anarchy, it’s closer to polycentric governance. Anarchists often believe morality is just inherent and everyone knows right from wrong. That’s wrong. We need law and governance.

To be angry over corruption and bureaucracy is totally understandable, but to blame the foundation of western law is misguided. It is the fault of sin in people. Good laws help us steward ourselves to be better.

Anarchists do not believe in private property. If they do, then they’re confused as to what anarchy means. Look into the definition of anarchy.

Don’t forget to think about how morality fits into all of this, because it must.

And truth is absolute. It is true that some morals and laws are better than others. Laws promoting stoning and tit-for-tat are bad. Laws promoting fair and impartial justice are good. Some laws bring us closer to truth, some not so much.....

Anarchy isn’t the opposite of taking issue with a monopoly on force. Anarchy irl is hell on earth. Don’t fall for the same reasoning that socialists use when saying, “well you just haven’t seen it done correctly”.

I have doubts that polycentric governance can exist at scale, but it’s interesting. Reconsider your stance on anarchy by researching what it looks like irl. The excuses for theoretical anarchy sound exactly like theoretical socialism.

You can’t have private judges in anarchy. You can’t have laws in anarchy. Not compatible. Anarchy implies truth isn’t absolute. It is! What you are describing above is [theoretical] polycentric governance, not anarchy. Everyone needs to drop the anarchy.

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Where do all these brilliant frogs come from?

Under anarchy, who enforces these rules? Who determines what’s justice? How is law founded?
On its surface, anarchy sounds like it has potential, but human nature gets in the way. You might be able to form a small anarchist posse, but that’s it.

Finance only possible with law. We have freedom to take risk, as modern law protects us from losing our lives over financial risks. Long ago, financial risk taking could destroy not only you, but your family and future offspring.

When I was younger, I was a fan of anarchy, but then I learned it’s not an improvement for humanity. We need society. History shows us that in times of anarchy, life was horrific.

Because anarchy and capitalism are incompatible.

I love capitalism.
I love rights.
I love law.
I love morals.
I love freedom.
I love truth.

God makes this all possible.
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Sound advice.

They are part Russian and Mexican, so yes! 😂

The things my boy says, it blows my mind.

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While playing market with my young kids, I asked my daughter if she has a license for that ice cream stand. She runs off to make one.

Asked my son if he has a license for that produce stand. He slaps a dollar on the counter and says, “Here’s my license.”