Quote Originally Posted by ermitonto



* Do you believe that human beings are fundamentally corrupt and evil, or that certain sorts of people (women, people of color, ordinary folk who are not rich or highly educated) are inferior specimens, destined to be ruled by their betters?
If you answered "yes", then, well, it looks like you aren't an anarchist after all. But if you answered "no', then chances are you already subscribe to 90% of anarchist principles, and, likely as not, are living your life largely in accord with them. Every time you treat another human with consideration and respect, you are being an anarchist. Every time you work out your differences with others by coming to reasonable compromise, listening to what everyone has to say rather than letting one person decide for everyone else, you are being an anarchist. Every time you have the opportunity to force someone to do something, but decide to appeal to their sense of reason or justice instead, you are being an anarchist. The same goes for every time you share something with a friend, or decide who is going to do the dishes, or do anything at all with an eye to fairness.
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I guess I am not an anrchist because I believe that some people, for whatever reason, are bad. And not because of authoritarian parents, or because they grew up poor, just because they were built that way. I also believe that if all resources were shared among everyone, there would still be many reasons to murder or kill, like for example, jealousy.

I also believe some people have better leadership abilities than other people, and some people would rather be followers than leaders. Just imagine any kind of group task, from sports or even a jury, no matter how you would like it to be, usually some kind of leader emerges out of the situation, and other people are more apt to follow and agree with his/her ideas.

And how do you propose that people just conveniently forget about the luxuries and temptation of capitalism and government?

Unless you can bring up a recent example of an anarchist community in the Western World that worked on the scale of millions,and that was succeeding in its objectives you really have no proof that anarchy can work.