Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (2000)
&gt; Anarchists are simply people who believe human beings are capable of behaving in a reasonable fashion without having to be forced to. It is really a very simple notion.<p>This can sound reasonable when you think of it in terms of, &quot;<i>most</i> people behaving in a reasonable fashion, <i>most</i> of the time&quot;. But anarchists don&#x27;t want to eliminate hierarchical use of force for <i>most</i> cases, but for <i>all</i> of them.<p>Any time I&#x27;ve heard anarchists try to explain how they would deal with the subset of people who are just real shitty in various ways, the responses have been either, a) in our utopia, you wouldn&#x27;t have those problems, because hierarchy causes all of them, or b) increasingly convoluted and implausible-sounding ways to deal with crazy assholes without using force.