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ELI5 why is anarchy not "the guy with the bigger stick" making the rules?
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How does an anarchy society enforce the rules? Say, murders.
Let's say you risk nothing if you murder. Would you start right away going on a killing spree ? Chances you think "I won't but others will" and others actually think the same. An anarchist would probably analyse this by saying that destroying trust between indivuals living together is a basic tool power use to justify its domination. A pedantic anarchist would get his Latin out at this point. Divide et impera.
By that logic, there either never has been a murder in human history or governments cause people to murder.
Anarchy isn't some deep philosophy, it's just a lack of any sort of life experience.
By your logic, murders don't happen anymore in liberal democracies?
It isn't some deep philosophy indeed. It's very practical and not a church in any way. Anarchists usually don't care about people calling themselves anarchists, but consider that some stuff like counter measures to absolute power that our institutions have, gender equality and some other stuff are things they've been pushing for a while.
At its very core, anarchism is the refusal of any fundamental dogma, and in some ways very related to the scientific method and rationalism. This is probably a more personal take than what I've written so far ;-)
Chill out man, we aren't coming to behead you or anything. <3