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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How would an anarchist society stop someone from claiming your house to build a highway or a coal mine? "The self-defensive mechanisms" is just police again you just call it differently and it can do whatever it likes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, the self-defense mechanisms aren't the same thing as "police", since the former is structured bottom-up and the other one is top-down.

An anarchist society would be organized democratically so that the people affected by policies have a say in these decitions proportional to howeit affects them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So when you have 150 people in a society and 80 vote for people with red hair should be burned as witches what happens then?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I guess then the people with red hair will be burned. I don't think that's a realistic scenario, though.

If a state claims that a minority group deserves less/no rights and can be harmed without repercussions, what happens then?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

People with red hair would be burned, but to get to that point you have serious assumptions. That's akin to saying "what if in a Utopia, everyone decided to kill themselves for fun?" It's unrealistic and purely serves to derail the conversation against Democracy.