Anarchy

It seems to me that the biggest problem with an anarchist system is the size of populations. Take China or some other country of similar size, turn it anarchist, and you'd get complete chaos. Take some little self-sufficient town out in the middle of nowhere where everybody gets along pretty well, take away from it the influence of any kind of state or government, and that pretty much just takes away all the beauracratic crap they have to deal with.

Who's to say that people can't get along when a small community -- every single person who wants to live there -- decides to work for their own individual interests and yet agrees to trade their goods or whatever with each other according to their own judgement and terms, and everybody that decides to build this community has similar codes of ethics and philosophy that promote prosperity.

But with the way things are today, you'd have a lot of trouble going out somewhere and finding a spot of land worth settling such a community on that's not already controlled by some government; to my knowledge, at least.

Now why couldn't that logically work? I don't buy this pessimistic crap that people simply can't work with each other in a way where everyone is capable of their own happiness in an environment of complete freedom. I don't buy that not everyone has that drive and ambition somewhere in 'em. I think it just seems otherwise today because of the cultures that come from the influence of a large population: all of this welfare and handout culture.

What are your views, 4chan? Discuss.

>>5  Maybe people can only emphatize with a limited amount of people.

This hits the nail right on the head.  It's easy to control your actions when you see the consequences immediately and locally; jim loses the shirt of his back, you feel bad about it, and everyone you know scowls at you whenever they walk by until you make amends. 

But in such a large group, you don't know who you're affecting, nobody knows you did anything, therefore, you can feel guilt free.  In such a large group, the usual ties that keep you in line, the ones the human race evolved to use aren't there anymore.

That's why we need some government.  I'm not a big government supporter, and I agree that some people will become parasites (it's a natural thing that happens, it's why parasite is a natural designation of an organism) no matter what, and that some people will be "disefranchised".  But that's OK.  At least the system we have rewards those who provide the most most of the time.