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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Anarchy is very cool, until someone has the wrong opinion.

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[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You can hope all you want that I'm not a pedophile, and coincidentally I'm not, but some people are. For some people, the only reason they're not doing it is because they're in jail for doing it.

And that's my problem with all of these explanations of anarchy that I've heard. They all rely on people being fundamentally good and choosing to do the right thing together as a society. And most people are like that. But a not insignificant amount of others aren't.

How would anarchy handle those people?

[–] Voidian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That doesn't actually answer the question. You make some very good points about the futility of our current mode of criminal punishment. I very much agree. But you offer no solutions that would require anarchy or benefit from it.

A centralized institution to implement all the changes that you mentioned is absolutely something a government would be more capable of.

[–] Voidian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

Start building what works now, where you are.

Every reform you like started as people organizing. The second the state touches it, it turns care into control. Prisons, cops, "rehab", all began as community ideas. Now they’re cages.

Anarchy isn’t "no system." It’s systems we control. Local, adaptable, replaceable. The state just standardizes failure.