• Prunebutt@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    No, the self-defense mechanisms aren’t the same thing as “police”, since the former is structured bottom-up and the other one is top-down.

    An anarchist society would be organized democratically so that the people affected by policies have a say in these decitions proportional to howeit affects them.

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      1 year ago

      So when you have 150 people in a society and 80 vote for people with red hair should be burned as witches what happens then?

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        1 year ago

        I guess then the people with red hair will be burned. I don’t think that’s a realistic scenario, though.

        If a state claims that a minority group deserves less/no rights and can be harmed without repercussions, what happens then?

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        People with red hair would be burned, but to get to that point you have serious assumptions. That’s akin to saying “what if in a Utopia, everyone decided to kill themselves for fun?” It’s unrealistic and purely serves to derail the conversation against Democracy.