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[–] 5wim@infosec.pub 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"No rulers" doesn't mean "no rules."

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works -2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

But it does mean nobody to enforce the rules, which means no rules.

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] merc@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh wow. How very convincing. I guess you got me.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 weeks ago

My argument was just as high quality as yours.

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

No it doesn't, name one anarchist society where this was an issue in the real world.

https://anarwiki.org/wiki/List_of_Anarchist_Societies

point to them here

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And the largest one in that list is...? And the longest lasting is...? Just because you can balance a knife on its tip doesn't mean that that's a stable configuration, and if anarchism is not stable, why bother talking about it?

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's a different point, we can move onto that one next if you'd like, first i'd like you to concede your previous one.

simply admit what you said has never happened in the real world, and anarchism doesn't mean no rules, it means no rulers.

Unless you have an example where that happened on the list, where that was the reason for the collapse.

[–] 5wim@infosec.pub 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] merc@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 weeks ago

Perhaps you should do more than just read a book and look at the real world?