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Which will, inevitably, result in some guy hiring a bunch of big guys to take money/property/wealth/life/liberty from other people, establish himself as some sort of ruler, and start the end that everyone saw coming to the short-lived reign of anarchy.

There is a reason that humans naturally organized themselves into governments.

That's the point I'm trying to make! A lack of hierarchy means that everyone is equal and the people can govern themself as an individual.

People aren't nice. Do you really think everybody will respect common sense?
Anarchy means no government, no laws, no limit to freedom. That means I can do what I want.. like killing people, rubbing everything. And other people can do that to me.
Maybe it can work for little community but not for a country.

Sorry to say that, but you should have lived during the Middle Age.
What you told me in fact is to get armed and got revenge if I had problems.
As you say I can be killed now. Maybe the government can't do anything for me, but police can arrest my murderer, and some judge will condamn him. And it can make laws about guns or things like that...
Without any laws who will do the job? My family, or my friends for revenge? And if they manage to do that, what will happen after that?

Dead criminals are not dangerous anymore. But if some policemen did an investigation about them and arrested them before they attack me?
Do you prefer to kill people to suppress problems?

And don't worry for me, I didn't learned the whole civil code to be a good girl and respect all the laws.
I don't like my government and I'm pretty worried about it. I just don't think anarchy is the answer.

That is not what I said. What I said is that you are responsible for your own security. Whether or not that means being armed is up to you. Revenge is up to you.

Both of those are true even with government.



So what you are saying is that you would rather be dead with a government than alive without.



If you are capable of defending yourself, there is no job to do. Prevention is better than reaction. Be aware, be trained, be capable and you will *live*. You won't be a target. Criminals won't attack you because criminals like easy targets and trained, aware, capable people are *not* easy targets.

It almost sounds like you want to be victim.



If it is their first time to attack someone, what would the police investigate? But if you are prepared to defend yourself, his first time attacking someone could be his last time.

You could stop the crime spree before it ever started, simply by defending yourself.

And yes, I have no problem with people killing people who attack them, if they feel it is necessary. People have the right to defend themselves from attack by any means necessary, including lethal force, in my opinion.

That's not medieval. That's life all over the world, throughout all history.



No, anarchy is not the answer. Personal responsibility is. Peaceful, non-violent anarchy is the result of a critical mass of people who believe in personal responsibility.

Heh, I like the way Bakunin puts it, "I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation."

While, yes, personal responsibility is important, it's also necessary to understand that defending the freedom of others is equally important. Which is why anarchism cannot be entirely individualistic, but interdependent.

No, I'm not.

Peaceful anarchy requires a critical mass of people that believe in two things:

Personal responsibility
Personal morality.

"Might makes right" occurs when people have ability, but not morality or responsibility. In anarchy, and in government as well, people who are moral and responsible stand up and limit those who are not by their own actions.

Government, however, gives those who are irresponsible and immoral a method of magnifying their power beyond the capabilities of moral, responsible people.

Government is actually the true result of a "might makes right" mentality.