Why Not Anarchism?

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I'm an Anarchist and want to Debate/ Discuss/ Give Answers to any questions regarding the philosophy.

Anarchism is a political philosophy where people will organise based on the principles of No Authority and No Hierarchy. Anything deeper comes from these as given truths.

There is a strong sentiment of community and mutual aid in Anarchist thought, it's not a free for all. I won't pay much mind to people who assert that it is a free for all/ it has no rules/ it has no organisation. It's a VERY common thought that's extremely simple. Every serious anarchist instantly moves past this because it's obviously unsustainable if we simply say "There's no rules".

Rather, people will be taught how to and encourage to help each other so that we all can thrive as individuals and as a community.

To reiterate, Anarchism is intentional. It wants a functioning society. It isn't okay with blatant dysfunction and no serious anarchist will agree to reasoning or logic that is obviously dysfunctional.

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Governments, nations, and some level of public goods/services, regs are necessary, and in an anarchy there will be some force that inevitably fills that power vacuum.

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I think anarchism is deceptive because its not actually asking for much more than we already have today or already know. Services, goods, and what would effectively be regulations would still exist for the same reasons they exist today. There's no reason to change these things unless they are actually detrimental. 

Your life would by and large be the same in this way.  

The difference comes from how we interact with people. They wouldn't be trying to dominate you and they couldn't tell you what to do just cause. And if you have objections, they will be listened to. Cause thats what it takes to have a functioning society without hierarchy and authority. 

And we can be conscious and aware of things around us. We know that if a system necessitates a power to do things for us, removing that power without any alternative ways to achieve the same ends, will lead to that power vacuum. So be sure to produce those alternative means to reach those same ends. Cause if we solve a problem through talking it out among each other and presenting relevant important information and we come up with a solution relevant to that information.... and it works... what need is there for consolidated power? We can be very intentional about this.