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One argument against freedom (anarchy) is that people should not be free to do anything they want since people are capable of "bad things" such as theft, murder, rape and generally hurting (wronging) one another.

This argument is flawed. It supposes that freedom is the reason people behave in any particular way. That laws or restrictions on freedom disable people's ability to behave in certain ways because such behaviour is against those rules. This is incorrect because people, living in a society where those rules exist, still commit those types of acts. It does not follow that freedom will lead to chaos, that a lack of law or restriction will necessarily result in more pain and suffering in the world at large.

I would suggest that quite the opposite is true. That it is infact the imposition of society and it's various rules and infringements of liberty which lead to what we could refer to as acts of rebellion, these acts will often take the form of mistreating others but, once again, this is the result of the enforcement of a system which justifies the mistreatment of human beings on a global scale. These rules operate under a guise of protecting us from  ourselves when really it is that same system which works to create situations and attitudes leading to such acts of injustice, malice and the inhumane.

If we were truly free it is very possible we could actually work together, see each other as equals, all entitled to the complete freedom we deserve and actively choosing not to hurt one another for the benefit of us all. It is important to note that this would better than acting that way because we had to, because we feared punishment or retaliation, the negative consequences of an act should be punishment enough, knowing and truly understanding what it means to hurt another is to hurt yourself, to hurt your people, this should be enough to inform of the wrongness of such action. If we were making a free choice not to behave that way even though we were all aware that any of us could, it would mean so much more. It would mean we truly respected and loved one another.

It is easy to state at this point that such ideas go against human nature, that we are selfish and power hungry creatures and we will never be free from those desires which is why we have systems which re-enforce those principles. But if a human can commit suicide or refuse to eat meat or be homosexual or miriad other personal choices which directly conflict with our supposed "natural" (biological)  inclinations then it shows that we are in fact free thinking beings with the power of choice and to say that the world is the way it is and it will never change because we are somehow actually incapable is simply lazy and/or fearful. Political apathy is one thing, that is part of the oppression we suffer at the hands of the powers that be, but to accept that you, an individual cannot live how you want to live, choose what you want to believe in, because of your genes or something equally trivial is truly tragic and apalling. People should have more respect for themselves, we are human beings, people, individuals and we have no business being told what to think, do or believe!

                                   FIGHT               THE                   POWER!

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One argument against freedom (anarchy) is that people should not be free to do anything they want since people are capable of "bad things" such as theft, murder, rape and generally hurting (wronging) one another.

This argument is flawed. It supposes that freedom is the reason people behave in any particular way. That laws or restrictions on freedom disable people's ability to behave in certain ways because such behaviour is against those rules. This is incorrect because people, living in a society where those rules exist, still commit those types of acts. It does not follow that freedom will lead to chaos, that a lack of law or restriction will necessarily result in more pain and suffering in the world at large.

I would suggest that quite the opposite is true. That it is infact the imposition of society and it's various rules and infringements of liberty which lead to what we could refer to as acts of rebellion, these acts will often take the form of mistreating others but, once again, this is the result of the enforcement of a system which justifies the mistreatment of human beings on a global scale. These rules operate under a guise of protecting us from  ourselves when really it is that same system which works to create situations and attitudes leading to such acts of injustice, malice and the inhumane.

If we were truly free it is very possible we could actually work together, see each other as equals, all entitled to the complete freedom we deserve and actively choosing not to hurt one another for the benefit of us all. It is important to note that this would better than acting that way because we had to, because we feared punishment or retaliation, the negative consequences of an act should be punishment enough, knowing and truly understanding what it means to hurt another is to hurt yourself, to hurt your people, this should be enough to inform of the wrongness of such action. If we were making a free choice not to behave that way even though we were all aware that any of us could, it would mean so much more. It would mean we truly respected and loved one another.

It is easy to state at this point that such ideas go against human nature, that we are selfish and power hungry creatures and we will never be free from those desires which is why we have systems which re-enforce those principles. But if a human can commit suicide or refuse to eat meat or be homosexual or miriad other personal choices which directly conflict with our supposed "natural" (biological)  inclinations then it shows that we are in fact free thinking beings with the power of choice and to say that the world is the way it is and it will never change because we are somehow actually incapable is simply lazy and/or fearful. Political apathy is one thing, that is part of the oppression we suffer at the hands of the powers that be, but to accept that you, an individual cannot live how you want to live, choose what you want to believe in, because of your genes or something equally trivial is truly tragic and apalling. People should have more respect for themselves, we are human beings, people, individuals and we have no business being told what to think, do or believe!

                                   FIGHT               THE                   POWER!