"So an interesting thing about anarchy, a free society, is that it ultimately creates the opposite of anarchy, rather quickly. In anarchy a human is 100% free to create. The problem being some humans are very smart and very driven, very "elite". These humans will amass wealth, power, land, armies ... and you will very quickly find yourself being ruled by a king or queen. You may be free to leave, vote with your feet, but guarantee another dictator will be waiting the next territory over. Very soon these elites will own every scrap of land by purchasing or by force and you will serve them. Ultimately the point of the United states government and governments like it is to prevent the complete rule of one individual or family and give citizens a voice where otherwise throughout human history they have had none. I'm not boot licking here, just pointing out the inevitable pitfall and doom of a free society."

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@sim I believe every system - including anarchism - has potential to be abused and corrupted, and that eventually someone will abuse it and corrupt it. Everything ends in tyranny if it lasts long enough. The main question is, how long does each system usually take to reach that point? Which systems are the most resilient to turning into a tyranny? And then, how much freedom is it okay to trade away for this resilience - at what point does the freedom you're trading away now outweigh the freedom you're potentially preserving by slowing down the slide into tyranny? These are very difficult questions to answer, and I'm sure the answers vary greatly from person to person.
In the end, everything ends with someone trying to oppress someone else and take away their freedom.

@Galena I think you make a really good point here, I don't really have the answer for myself. As you say, it will vary between different people. I think it gets harder with each generation that passes, how can you be resilient against that? Each generation has their own set of problems that take priority.
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