Friday, 28 June 2013

The Truth About Anarchism

The Truth About Anarchism - Amanda Billyrock gets into a Facebook spat with a minarchist who won't spend the time to understand Anarcho-Libertarianism.
Good article. I think that for most cases the minarchist/anarchist argument is pointless. The society that embraced one or the other would look on the surface, pretty much identical. The only difference between the two is a moral difference. Anarchists tend to be concerned with the morality of a given political situation. Minarchists aren't. So when the discussion is about the morality of a given system then the Anarchist/minarchist dichotomy is sound. When it comes to how society would actually be run, I wonder if the argument becomes divisive. I probably would side with a minarchist  who stands against immoral laws (Ron Paul) vs. an anarchist who holds his views for utilitarian reasons (David Friedman), though I am an anarchist 1000%, most self proclaimed Anarchists are so because they hate rules and Starbucks.

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