Thread: Is anarchy a good idea? How could it work?

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

So would police, courts, lawmaking bodies, and military be private in your ideal society? Would they exist at all? If not, what would replace them?

You speak as if those things came from the state. But if you study history, you'll see that they all existed independently and for their own reasons, long before the state co-opted them.

And what does 'private' mean? The courts can't be private; they're the courts. They're the place where property rights are defined. The military can't be private; it's the People getting together to defend their property. By allowing the state to take over these institutions you are making them private, and giving certain humans the power to own them, where none existed before. You are doing the very thing you're worried about.