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Good article! People often confuse anarchy with lawlessness but obviously there are some simple rules you need to abide by when you are part of a society. The issue is that we have strayed so far from what it means to be part of the world and part of nature, that most people have no idea how to even think about a life without an entity micromanaging their everyday activities.

Where I life, in a remote African village, it is much more easy to envision. You eat 99% local products and government is mostly invisible. Sure, they know they are being governed and most understand it is a dictatorship posing as a democracy and they know it is corrupt from top to bottom. The only issue people here see when you ask them to envision a life without government is the fear of greed of others. They don't think they would have the power to stop these people but when I explain that in this new society, there are many more like you than there are of them, they understand what I am getting at.

I find it a very interesting thought experiment and it is very telling how different these conversations are compared to the ones I have with my European, American or Asian friends.

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''but locking Them up for a reasonable time (life for taking a life, for example) surely is acceptable''

So, what are you going to do with the crew, government and back of government, that's in there now? I don't think you know what you are up against. Unless you're referring to after ''they'' have been taken care of and we begin again?

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