Anti-Authoritarianism

[In Bloom]

Which constitutes a coercive act which will conceivably have to be achieved with a measure of violence.

Like 888 pointed out, you can't let some vague notion of ideological purity fuck things up. However, preventing others from behaving in a way that harms or oppresses others (such as playing loud music in the middle of the night when people are trying to sleep) is not authoritarian, IMO.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

However, preventing others from behaving in a way that harms or oppresses others (such as playing loud music in the middle of the night when people are trying to sleep) is not authoritarian, IMO.

Well, to my mind, neither is trying to organise things properly by having the general rules of conduct laid down in advance and requiring people to respect them.

 

[In Bloom]

Well, to my mind, neither is trying to organise things properly by having the general rules of conduct laid down in advance and requiring people to respect them.

I agree wholeheartedly, its just a matter of how those rules are decided and how they are enforced.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

I agree wholeheartedly, its just a matter of how those rules are decided and how they are enforced.

Then we're putting "voluntary association" out with the rubbish, I trust?

 

[In Bloom]

Then we're putting "voluntary association" out with the rubbish, I trust?

Nope, people should be entirely free to bugger off elsewhere if they don't like the rules of the community they live in.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Nope, people should be entirely free to bugger off elsewhere if they don't like the rules of the community they live in.

That doesn't mean a lot when the community is the size of the planet.

 

[In Bloom]

That doesn't mean a lot when the community is the size of the planet.

If people are so incredibly anti-social that no community on Earth will take them in, then the fault really isn't at the communities' end. What I'm saying is that people who harm or opress others are acting in an authoritarian mannet by forcing their wishes on others, a libertarian society can't allow for people to act that way.

 

[rednblack]

Do you regard militant anti-fascism as authoritarian?

yes - i still agree 100% with it however

 

[In Bloom]

yes - i still agree 100% with it however

So basically its a matter of disagreeing over definitions more than politics then?