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Reply to Kilroy:

>Why did you take away the
>part where i said that
>anarchy is an utopia and
>the part about the african
>village where anacrhy works?

Even then it does not work. There is always a government. Who is to decide who's land is who's or if the land is shared, who get's what portion of what? There is government at the very lowest levels in all places. You may even call a family government, the parents always have power over the children (which seems to be changing nowadays). Anarchy doesn't exist in any form.

>I
>agreed that anarchy isn't going
>to work in real life,
>but people can still dream
>right? I don't profess communism,
>I say it's better than
>capitalism.

No it isn't, maybe from the theoretical perspective but then again everything in theory (except anarchy) works perfectly. A dictatorship is perfect under the perfect ruler; a communist state is perfect if each worker works for the greater whole, there is perfect distribution of goods, and each person works for group and not of self; a capitalistic society works perfectly by letting competitors strive to bring the best and cheapest product to the consumer market in order to sell the most, the consumer benefits most; a democratic society works perfectly if all questions can be put to a vote and everyone obeys the end resolution; a Republic works perfectly because it is a better democratic system except decisions are made at a higher level than taking the entire population into consideration. All are perfect in theory and thus you must move the deciding factor to its form in-action. Communism does not work. It is worse than capitalism because there are no goverment institutions to bring down power hungry rich right abusers. Why? Because they're the ones with the power and since you can't ELECT anyone new, they stay in power perpetually.

>Communism isn't what yo
>think it is. To put
>it simple: A communist want
>that the spoil of the
>worker should pay the worker.
>In other words: the worker
>pays himself.

No, you are confused.

The theoretical communist idea is that everyone works his job and gives his product to society, he then receives from society what he himself cannot or is not producing himself. Thus a steel worker produces steel but also receives food from other workers who receive steel. The revision to this, and the one more professed is that the worker does his work and receives the same pay as a person who does different work. Thus a doctor recieves the same pay as a farmer. Sounds good but there are problems, some people figure that they will be paid ANYWAY whether or not they do work or not. Others will reason that they should be paid MORE because they do more. It all goes to hell from there.

>A capitalist wants that the spoil
>of the worker should
>go to the owner of
>the factory so that there
>could be work. In other
>words: the owner of the
>factory gets all the money
>from the workers labour. Of
>those two things I think
>the first is the better.

Again you are confused.

A capitalistic society addresses the demand for more pay for more work. You are paid according to the work you perform. Whoever does the best work gets paid the best. It makes sense. However there are problems. People or corporations, once they have attained a good reputation and foundation they can strut their might by merging with other lesser corporations. Thus the monopoly system starts and the entire purpose of capitalism is shot to pieces. That's why you need governments to enfore trade practices that live under the doctrine of captitalism.

>I must ask you a
>question: If it wheren't any
>laws against killing people would
>you go around killing people
>then? I hope the answer
>is no.I know what you
>are going to say something
>like: "yes, i wouldn't kill
>just because it's legal but
>others might".
>To that I
>say don't you think that
>the murder would be driven
>away from the town where
>they have killed or be
>punished some other way?

Let me ask you something. Who would enforce that unspoken law? Who has the power to? A government.

That would obviously be the strongmen of the village. How would those people be chosen? Because the rest of the town has elected them to the position. They enfore these unspoken rules. Thus there is law.

Law's are the rules created by those strong enough to enforce them. In all societies there is always someone who is stronger than the others. Thus what they say is law.

Thus anarchy does not and cannot exist.

>About
>the part in the movie
>"Monty Python's search for the
>Holy Graal" I wonder if
>you ever has seen that
>movie. What Dennis say could
>infact work. Anarchy means that
>some politians in Washington DC
>won't control New Mexico or
>Colorado. South Park, Colorado is
>controled by South Park, Colorado
>and not by Washington DC.
>By officals voted by the
>citizens of South Park.

Wrong again. What you are describing are city-states which have their own laws and governments. If you tear down a higher order and do not replace it, smaller orders will form. There is always order. There is never anarchy except in the forming of order, and that is lawless destruction.

>And
>no I ouldn't have robots
>making the food for me.
>Unless you can provide such
>a robot. Unlike 90% of
>all americans (yes this is
>actual numbers) I have seen
>a cow in real life
>and I know how to
>produce food on my own
>(agriculture, hunting/gathering etc.).

Well shucks so have I, and I've seen how chickens are slaughtered too. Does that make you any better? Really, GET OVER IT.

>And if
>I have the money to
>bu myself an island somewhere
>I would have the money
>to pay some company to
>drop some food from airplanes
>once a week or so.
>Of course will the crates
>with the food have parachutes.

And your point here is?

-Xotor-

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In short Communism sucks big time while democracy -though it may not be perfect- is a much better alternative.
 
>Ta ta ta, "my opinion is better than yours, and you're a clueless child"... <Sigh> Humans ;-)
>
>Don't listen to him, Kilroy, radical
>elements keep 'establishment' on its
>toes and make it work
>instead of rotting and drowning
>in its own fat.

Keep them on the toes of what? Just to waste energy dealing with these people who have nothing better to do than waste energy and resources? They're like spammers and script-kiddies; people who gratify themselves at the expense of annoying others. People like that should be executed for crimes against humanity, no even worse, they should be made to slave for the rest of humanity.

The only thing I like about communist governments over democratic ones is that the government has enough power to deal with "troublemakers" without worrying about the public opinion. No, I wouldn't eliminate free speech, but I'd "deal" with people who took free speech and caused trouble with it (like that PETA group, militaristic rebel groups like the Waco Texas branch dividian people, graffitiers, gangs, etc.). Just get rid of fanatics. If you're going to protest, do it peacefully.

-Xotor-

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[font size=1" color="#FF0000]LAST EDITED ON Jul-01-00 AT 08:34PM (GMT)[p]About the part with the food: Someone said "How the hell are you going to survive? You're gonna have robots make the food for you?" And I answered. You have said what you think and I have said what I think. Let's drop the subject 'cause this are causing a bad mood on the board? I will forever (at least I think so) be an anarchist, and you can be a republican or a democrat or whatever I don't care. If you ever come to Sweden send me a mail and we can discuss this face to face. My email adress is pwrede@hotmail.com
Peter "tired of this subject" Wrede

PS Thanx Aptyp for the support. How about we go burn some american flags? To all the stupid people out there: THAT LAST PART WAS A JOKE! Xotor don't even bother to make some annoying reply to that I'll just ignore you anyway. Dada da I can't hear you! Didadum!
 
Seems to me like you just lost a debate and now you're whining about losing it. But you're right, let's drop the subject and agree to disagree.
 
RE: Question, Xotor

> What is the primal force that is responsible for
> humanity's progress - survival, curiosity or
> laziness?

Hmmm... freedom?

I got to agree with the part where Xotor says: "Anarchy does not and cannot exist.".
I don't believe in anarchy (some years [4 or 5] ago I called myself an anarchist when I realized that it was merely stupidity).

In anarchy, "Your freedom ends when other's freedom starts".

How humans can co-exist without having order? They can't. Just try to give me a small succesfull example of human living in anarchy. Just one.
 
Actually none of those.

>What is the primal force that
>is responsible for humanity's progress
>- survival, curiosity or laziness?

Actually none of those.

The primal force for all technology in history is war. To kill another human has pushed the barriers of technology, moved nations, drawn people, and developed the world.

Why? Because war is order. The deepest of orders. Humans strive to find their purpose, and war gives them their purpose: to destroy the enemy.

War has united people throughout the ages, spawned new technology, and changed ideals. The internet was born from ARAPNET, a network designed to allow constant communication even if major centers of information were destroyed. All of the space exploration was only to show who had the capabilities to destroy the other nation; if you can send a man to the moon you can send a nuke to your enemy's back yard. Computers were created to cipher and decipher encrypted messages. Cars as with ships, planes, and trains were invented to transport troops, not provide the public with transportation, or food.

Why do you think Rome fell? It wasn't internal corruption, it was because the soldider, the COUNTRY had nowhere else to conquer. War. Why do you think the Great Depression was overturned? Because of WWII. Why do you think World War I started? Not because some Arch Duke of Austria-Hungary was killed. That's not a reason, I mean really, an Arch DUKE of all people? No. Germany and Austria-Hungary used it as an EXCUSE to call for war. They wanted war.

Kilroy's anarchy cannot exist because it is founded on peace. Humans will always try to break the peace. Why do you see these fanatical groups like PETA bombing fur shops and protesting meat companies? They want conflict. If they got what they wanted they would complain about something else. Protesters protest only for the fact of protesting, not their beliefs. They are BORED PEOPLE who have nothing better to do.

People who try to tear down order NEVER know what to put in orders place because they only strive for destruction. They are humans. They want conflict. They want war.

So let me ask you something, when you strive for anarchy, are you really just striving for supreme order? Order in war? Order within yourself?

-Xotor-

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RE: Question, Xotor

>In anarchy, "Your freedom ends when
>other's freedom starts".

>How humans can co-exist without having order?

Exactly. You must have order to have freedom. Freedom is a priviledge given by an order. A "right" if you will.

In anarchy, you have no right, no freedom. Anarchy is a state of total slavery. You are bound by no single set of laws so you are bound by everyone's law. When you are alone any person may press their own law upon you and you can only fight it or give in to it. Whoever is stronger than you controls you, and when you are alone there are many to control you. Humans are nothing when alone, unbound by the power of the group, of order.

So when you profess anarchy you are professing slavery.

-Xotor-

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RE: Actually none of those.

And, another reason to fundament the "Anarchy can't exist" topic is that you're gonna be always belong to a major order. Because nature is order, and even the human body has order.

How can you say that you're anarchist if your life is attached to the universe, mother of all order? How can you say that anarchy is possibly if you live inside the complexity of a major order?

The only place where anarchy/disorder can exist is inside your imagination, it can't be physically possible meanwhile we're inside a major system with laws and order.

Umm... Too much extravagance? Damn... It's 4:30am here.... *yawn*
 
RE: Actually none of those.

Ahh yes, the inherent self destructive nature we humans poses.
 
RE: Actually none of those.

>How can you say that you're
>anarchist if your life is
>attached to the universe, mother
>of all order? How can
>you say that anarchy is
>possibly if you live inside
>the complexity of a major
>order?

Ever heard of the chaos theory? Universe is everything BUT in order. You beleive in faith and the destinty to, don't you? The creation of the universe, Big Bang was absolutely not a thing of order, it was total chaos and so will it forever be. BUT, universe is not in order, it has been, it is and it will forever be in total chaos and randomness.
Shadowman, I can't win this argument caus Xotor is to bigheaded to realize that narchy can exist, in small communities. Like a small village in africa were there's no law and no goverment. In that village the women control their men and children, BUT I don't call that a form of goverment so i say it's anarchy. Important desiscions is discussed and all who want to can sppek their mind, and what the majority thinks is the best suggestion that suggestion wins. But there are still no written laws so I call that anarchy and that'll do for me. And Xotor, don't post a message where you say "I thought you weren't going to answer to anymore post" because then you will be wrong. I said the I wouldn't reply to any of your replys.
Peter Wrede
 
Xotor

Xotor: I DON'T 'preach' anarchy, nor declare it the ideal society. I am not an anarchist. Nowhere in my words will you find this. But listening to your words one might make seemingly absurd, yet logic paradox...

So war is the 'engine of progress'? Then shouldn't we all be divided to 2 categories - those who support war, and those who support peace. And if war, by your words, is humanity's progress' source, then people who are against war are against humanity's progress! Do you, Xotor, support war?

If yes, then you put yourself on the same moral level with spammers, fanatics and anarchists, and I would like to hear what my grandgrandparents have to say to you (they lost 5 children in WW2). But from your words it seems like you don't support war.

If no, then you are against humanity's progress, therefore, again, on the same level with spammers, fanatics and anarchists who stall humanity and prevent us all again from living in harmony (exaggeration).

And if you are saying that truth is harsh and sad, and you don't support war, but realize it's necessity, and individual interests must be sacrificed for the interests of many, you are nut and fanatic. And you, my friend, if I may remind you, are human too (are you? are you?? :-)), and you must abide the same laws as we all do, or you are a freak, an outcast and useless unit.

Questions and comments and no hard feelings, please.

Homepage http://members.xoom.com/russiandude/APTYP.html
 
RE: Actually none of those.

[font size=1" color="#FF0000]LAST EDITED ON Jul-02-00 AT 04:52PM (GMT)[p](snip)

Moot point, really.

>Shadowman, I can't win this argument
>caus Xotor is to bigheaded
>to realize that narchy can
>exist, in small communities. Like
>a small village in africa
>were there's no law and
>no goverment. In that village
>the women control their men
>and children, BUT I don't
>call that a form of
>goverment so i say it's
>anarchy. Important desiscions is discussed
>and all who want to
>can sppek their mind, and
>what the majority thinks is
>the best suggestion that suggestion
>wins. But there are still
>no written laws so I
>call that anarchy and that'll
>do for me.

You know what you just described?

A Matriarchial Democracy.
Still a form of government. If someone commits murder, then the village as a whole will decide what to do with the offender. Villages like that, akin to the northern homesteads, are "what you bring in, you will get out". So if you add to the village, you are a part of the village. If you don't, then you might find yourself possibly pushed out or something depending on how severe. The village will have people it looks up to, if not elders then by the best hunter ot whatever. They might have laws, from either commonly understood principles to unwritten or possibly unspoken laws.

>And Xotor,
>don't post a message where
>you say "I thought you
>weren't going to answer to
>anymore post" because then you
>will be wrong. I said
>the I wouldn't reply to
>any of your replys.

Um...hate to play english professor....but that means exactly the same thing.
 
RE: Actually none of those.

> Ever heard of the chaos theory? Universe is
> everything BUT in order.

I heard about it, not too much, though, but, despite what you think, universe is reign by physics laws. Why there're laws? Because if not, it would be purely anarchy, it would not exist. How can universe exist if there is no order? No path to follow?
Did you heard about the FACT that everything is a system of a major system? Systems have laws, if not, they can't exist. They're *nothing*.
Lets see the most common nature system that can be found in space. A planet rounds a star because that star creates a dense magnetic attraction field that don't let the planet escape. So... It's over! Anarchy stops its existence because the planet can't have completely freedom because a major system exists, the star. And the star? It is constantly walking around a galaxy. But, if the stars would not exist, the earth (for example) would not have the neccessary heat to allow the human being to live. A minor system is created. Dependency is a must. And with dependency, anarchy stop its existence.

And, from what I heard, the chaos issue exists as a form of explanation for the "random" phenomena, such topic human can't totally understand, and it isn't more than a *theory*.

> You beleive in faith and the destinty to, don't
> you?

I believe in these as a consecuence of an action.
Some scientist says that if you could be so so so fast to exactly analize the movement of an atom, you could easily predict the future.

> Big Bang was absolutely not a thing of order,
> it was total chaos and so will it forever be.
> BUT, universe is not in order, it has been, it
> is and it will forever be in total chaos and
> randomness.

Are you sure? Big Bandgnot a thing of order? Why do you think that?
Who made Big Bang happen? God? Themself? Because they wanted? Because one of the enourmous masses wanted to touch the other mass?
Big Bang happened because laws, magnetism, attraction, when two masses collide they crack... That's a law.

> narchy can exist, in small communities. Like a
> small village in africa were there's no law and
> no goverment. In that village the women control
> their men and children.

Culture is order. Childrens will not fuck their sisters because there is a primary law called incest. You would NEVER see that incest is gonna be made inside a family, NEVER. So, anarchy can't exist in a family, and much less in a community.

> Important desiscions is discussed and all who
> want to can sppek their mind, and what the
> majority thinks is the best suggestion that
> suggestion wins.

Democracy? You elect the decision by majority of votes? Isn't that a form of democracy?

> But there are still no written laws so I call
> that anarchy and that'll do for me.

It wasn't written, but it's there. Open your eyes and you will see that "what the majority thinks is the best suggestion that suggestion wins" is a law.
 
RE: Xotor

I don't think that war is the key to humanity progress.

But I think it's competence. Humans are always competing to win something, material or not, or just to win his own self-confidence.

The primary cause of every human progress was because a competition.
Airplanes, space, cars, computers, debates....
Even you can see here a competition, when you can see words like "win the debate", "lose the debate", "I'm never gonna win this debate because others".

War is purely competition, war brought lots of advancement to humanity, that IS a fact, you can't discuss me that, you can't discuss anyone that. But, now, the real question is... If war would not had happen, humanity would had progressed?
 
If not by war:

Then by greed.

Though, that is really shakey, as a company will only develop enough to get *just* above the next company and milk everyone for their money. But greed is certainly a factor for progress.

Gee, this is fun. Kind of like revisiting all my sociology, economics, and psychology college classes all in one....
 
Wrong again Kilroy.

>>How can you say that you're
>>anarchist if your life is
>>attached to the universe, mother
>>of all order? How can
>>you say that anarchy is
>>possibly if you live inside
>>the complexity of a major
>>order?
>
>Ever heard of the chaos theory?
>Universe is everything BUT in
>order. You beleive in faith
>and the destinty to, don't
>you? The creation of the
>universe, Big Bang was absolutely
>not a thing of order,
>it was total chaos and
>so will it forever be.
>BUT, universe is not in
>order, it has been, it
>is and it will forever
>be in total chaos and
>randomness.

Everything is described by order. What do you think Physics is? The fundamental science of reality. Physics PROVES ALL things move towards balance and order.

Take inertia for example. The resistance to CHANGE. Chaos is RANDOM change. Without change you have no chaos. ALL things strive towards a more perfect order. Why do gases expand to fill vacuums? Because there is a difference between pressures. Nature HATES unbalanced forces and situations.

Why do liquids becoming solids form crystals? Why do galaxies form orderly spirals? Why do stars form spheres? To order themselves.

Even what appears most chaotic, like heated gas molecules bouncing off each other is orderly. The molecules act just as if they were billard balls bouncing around on a pool table, except in 3D and about a trillion times more of them.

As for the chaos theory merely describes how ARTIFICIAL order will cave into entropy. Usually the deciding factor on that "chaos" are human mistakes.

>Shadowman, I can't win this argument
>caus Xotor is to bigheaded
>to realize that narchy can
>exist, in small communities.

I think you just can't win this argument because you HAVE NO ARGUMENT. You've lost. Every point you've made has been countered and has shown that you are wrong and contradicting yourself.

>Like
>a small village in africa
>were there's no law and
>no goverment. In that village
>the women control their men
>and children, BUT I don't
>call that a form of
>goverment so i say it's
>anarchy. Important desiscions is discussed
>and all who want to
>can sppek their mind, and
>what the majority thinks is
>the best suggestion that suggestion
>wins. But there are still
>no written laws so I
>call that anarchy and that'll
>do for me.

That's not anarchy, that's a description of a DEMOCRACY. Democracies rely on MAJORITY VOTE. It only works with small villages because in large "villages" even if the majority prevails, the minority may or may not choose to go along with the majority decision and trouble erupts.

Maybe you want a Democracy?

Seriously, try to think of what anarchy REALLY IS before professing it to the rest of us.

>And Xotor,
>don't post a message where
>you say "I thought you
>weren't going to answer to
>anymore post" because then you
>will be wrong. I said
>the I wouldn't reply to
>any of your replys.

What, do you expect me to be so childish as that? At least I'm not crying to Shadowman over your false illusion that you're right and I'm wrong.

-Xotor-

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And my reply to that.

>Xotor: I DON'T 'preach' anarchy, nor
>declare it the ideal society.
>I am not an anarchist.
>Nowhere in my words will
>you find this. But listening
>to your words one might
>make seemingly absurd, yet logic
>paradox...
>
>So war is the 'engine of
>progress'? Then shouldn't we all
>be divided to 2 categories
>- those who support war,
>and those who support peace.
>And if war, by your
>words, is humanity's progress' source,
>then people who are against
>war are against humanity's progress!
>Do you, Xotor, support war?

You asked me "What is the primal force that is responsible for humanity's progress - survival, curiosity or laziness?" I said War. But no, I don't profess war. But it IS the primal force that has driven mankind progress.

This is not to say War is the ONLY force or even the BEST force, but is certainly the most POWERFUL.

I'd say the second most powerful force is probably personal gain, or for consumerism. Take for example the pharmacudial companies patenting genes left and right. This is not for war, but rather to make money.

I'd personally rather see research put more towards benefitting the entire species, but I don't see that happening very soon.

>If yes, then you put yourself
>on the same moral level
>with spammers, fanatics and anarchists,
>and I would like to
>hear what my grandgrandparents have
>to say to you (they
>lost 5 children in WW2).
>But from your words it
>seems like you don't support
>war.

No I don't. It really is too bad that I don't have a copy of the old argument between Ares and I where I wrote of a new order which Ares named jokingly the "Xotorian World Order." It professed peace through uniting the world under a single order to eliminate war and defense and instead bring about a new age of research for the species.

-Xotor-

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