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Cool, I'm gonna kill your pets and smash the window of your car and take a shit in it and then set fire to your house and then jerk off on your sister and/or mom. I know you're cool with it, thanks!
Sure but just remember as long as I don't kill you I can now beat you almost to death :)
No laws doesn't mean no consequences
Of course! So I'll just bring a crew of big dudes with me, And then you'll have to get a bigger crew of big dudes. And then I'll get an even bigger crew. And soon we'll have armies fighting and who exactly is enforcing the no killing law? And eventually one of our armies will get big enough that we'll decide what the laws are and who's gonna stop us? See how that works?
I feel like I'm arguing with someone who has a pretty stone solid opinion in their head that in no way can an anarchy work in practice. Which is simply not true, I mean even today there's such a thing as slab city, it's a place where there is literally no law. It's a creative commune where people exist peacefully. Who enforces it? The community at large, because if someone is a troublemaker, they're immediately dealt with by those around them.
You're bringing up all these crazy what if scenarios while totally ignoring that the people of the community around you won't deal with your shit for very long if you decide you want to test out the limits.
That's just not how things work in real life. Otherwise we literally wouldn't have functioned as a society before laws came into effect.
I'm kind just devil's advocating the idea to point out what I think is your oversimplification of the issue.
Violence and the threat of it decides who gets to do what, for the entirety of human history. Sure you can have a group that isn't violent within themselves, but if another group wants what they have then violence decides the outcome. Maybe if you're living in a low population era in the deep past you can get by mostly avoiding other groups, because it's a big world and you can always move somewhere else if some bad guys show up. But once the population gets big enough that you need to compete for resources, violence will always decide the outcome.
Slab City exists because its a shithole and nobody cares that there are people living there. If it had anything at all of worth then it wouldn't be allowed to exist as an anarchy. And I assume the people there couldn't surivive without the whole apparatus of the rest of society (which functions under laws) supporting them; building their RVs and supplying food, etc.
I get the sentiment, especially under the current political landscape. But humans are violent creatures, the entirety of human history is defined by violence. If you want to continute living your very comfortable life (by the standards of human history) then you shouldn't be so quick to disparage the system that provides it.