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The vast majority of humans are actually nice, altruistic and not selfish if you treat them with respect. And hence anarchism would not resolve in everyone killing each other.
Absolutely correct. It would be the people who are in power now, building gangs and robbing the weak.
Anarchism is a schoolyard without teachers. Most kids are ok and will treat each other with respect.
But if you ever were molested in a dark corner of said schoolyard you know how important oversight is.
In an Anarchist world, it would be traumatized/autistic people like me running around with guns and shooting everyone who so much as touches another person on sight.
Genuine question: Why? What circumstances in an "Anarchist world" would cause this behaviour?
Or the other way: If you feel like this, what in our current system stops you from acting out?
If we had anarchism tomorrow which I‘m not convinced is a bad or good thing, we‘d still have people wanting to overpower others. Its a neurological/trauma issue. Most serial killers have a history of child abuse and so on.
These people will murder you regardless of anarchism, others will rape you, others will touch your kids.
But mire sinister, the ones who speak silver tongue will gather 10 friends and take your 10th as in the old ages.
And yes, if there is nobody keeping them in check, I‘d end them.
I don’t because people do keep them in check (less for the silver tongued, which is why I say eat the rich)