Albert

You know, you and I very nearly hold identical ideologies. Let's be friends!

^Private Messaging is your friend as well.

First Jenny, now this.

UA is starting to becom Wordforge's ladies man.

This should end well.

Nobody who calls himself an anarchist can claim much common ground with me.

First, it's Jenee.

and second ..., you've no idea...

About what? Carol being a girl?


I'm only surprised she's going for UA. He's not an illegal Mexican or a lesbian.

No, that's not where I was going.

Yes I am. I'm just trapped in a man's body.

Of the ass?

So is suicide.

You read that Carolvs?

Suicide is your friend. Don't forget your camera.......

How is Carol and UA's philosophies all that alike?

You would have to pin his long-winded, pretentious ass down to a succinct point of view before you could even guess at any similarities. I just went for his custom user title.

Compulsory female circumcision.

Whoa, now.

Long-winded? My laconic brevity is legendary.

Generally I oppose any forms of taxation, any forms of arbitrary authority, any laws that go beyond serving to protect members of a society from force, and any form of government. I reject any notion of responsibility for the lives and actions of others: I am not my brother's keeper, nor is he mine. Is that succinct enough?

We part there.

And what, in your view, would not be an arbitrary authority?

Sure. And I agree with most of that. But it is incompatible with anarchy.

I love anarchy.

What the funk are you on about, crazy lady?

I might accept the authority of a geologist to speak knowledgeably about the earth, for instance. I would not accept the authority of the tribal leader to tell me what to do and take my shit.

How so?

Remember back in elementary school and the teacher left the room for 5 minutes and all hell broke loose.

...good times...

Well, I think everyone here knows where I stand on social issues as well as government control over most business practices.

Laws, implemented by a central authority, enforced by a policing body, and prosecuted by formal judical/penal system are necessary to protect citizens from the imposition of force. And that's before you get into a mechanism for contract and trade law, standing military to protect sovereign borders, and a formal means of negotiating for international trade and diplomacy. Anarchy is usually the bullshit strawman argument leveled against libertarianism.

My ideology is anarchist, but obviously it's not practical in the real world, so that's where libertarianism (a compromise) comes into play. I recognise the necessity of the things you've identified, but would ideally keep them to an absolute minimum. With perfect human nature, entailing that one person respects the rights and property of another absolutely, anarchy would work. So while it is a pipe dream, it is still my dream.

I'm pretty sure UA's friendship can be bought with a donut.

I like anarchy too. Especially if it's in her ass.

carolvs's beliefs just seems like an un-thought out cro-magnon version UA's. Give em a few more years of real world experience and he might, might resemble UA a bit.

Beer. The good stuff.

I've got to play to the audience.

Well, if you flushed after you were done, he wouldn't be able to take it.

Well damn. Some fool gave me some Fosters, and I was going to send it your way. I guess I should put it on the front steps of one of the local high schools...