Oh boy, what have I gotten myself into? I'm in the middle of a big debate on Facebook about anarchy and it's bringing all the statists out with their outlandish hypotheticals and straw-man arguments.
Of course, multiple people came forward with some version of this question:
How would you stop a powerful warlord from taking control?
Ha! Checkmate anarchists! Betcha never thought of that one!
I'm going to drop one example from my Facebook conversation as well as my response:
My response to [redacted] is simple:
Oh the irony...
Seriously, isn't it so ironic that those who cling to the state do so because they're scared that a group of violent, power-hungry men might forcebly take control? They need a government to protect them from that...
Guess what. That's what government is!
And it's true, I don't have a practical solution to that question, but I don't need to.
Just because I don't believe in government doesn't mean it's my job to know how to solve all of the world's problems.
I don't need to know the answer to every practical concern to be able to determine right from wrong.
It's wrong to steal. It's wrong to strip away the rights of others. It's wrong to claim ownership of other people and their property.
These are all core facets of any government, and they're all wrong.
