To alot of people of course, government is all they know, and they cannot imagine the world without government, only because they think that without it their liberties and rights will be violated. What they do not think of though, is how governments all around the world have proven that they are the reason rights and liberties are violated. Governments are the ones starting wars, supresing the media, manipulating minds, torturing people in prisons, starving populations, practicing ethnic cleansing and genocide, and causing many more problems that deprive many of their liberty and right to live.
I do not agree with everything Crispy believes in, but I am an anarcho-socialist for a reason, and i think government is useless!
I would like to see people accept his challenge and reply to the post below:
A Philosophical Challenge
My irritating yet astounding new book Against the State (SUNY Press) argues that all the arguments of the great philosophers (Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Hegel, Rawls, Nozick, and Habermas, among others), are, putting it kindly, unsound.
The state rests on violence: not the consent of the governed, not utility, not rational decision-making, not justice.
Not only are the existing arguments for the legitimacy of state power unsound; they are shockingly fallacious, a scandal, an embarrassment to the Western intellectual tradition.
So I issue a challenge: Give a decent argument for the moral legitimacy of state power, or reconstruct one of the traditional arguments in the face of the refutations in Against the State.
If you can't, you are rationally obliged to accept anarchism.
I'd offer a huge cash prize, but I'm broke.Henceforward, if you continue to support or observe the authority of government, you are an evil, irrational cultist.
You're an anarchist now, baby, until further notice.
e-mail responses to c.sartwell@verizon.com
Yours in anarchy,
Crispin Sartwell
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