I recently started getting interested in anarchy and anarchism as a social model. I have been looking at some of the videos that @dollarvigilante put out on his anarchast and have found them to be well done and informative. I have tried to bring up the topic for conversation among my friends and family, but I get looked at as if I was an alien and am either ignored or asked if I was crazy.
Anyway, the reason for this post is to try and understand one particular aspect of anarchy, and that is how it applies to bad behavior. As a newbie I apologize if I am just rehashing something which has been dealt with before. Butt seems to me that how society deals with disruptive behavior is one of the main concerns that people will have about adopting anarchy as a social model. Understandably this just arises from the strong sense of self preservation that people tend to have. Especially because of violent bad behavior, but also from behavior which is just unfair toward others.
I want to try and understand this because I have no great love for the banking system and how they are supported by government. This system causes a tremendous amount of suffering and devastation around the world and governments do not seem to do much about it. How can they, since there is so much entanglement between those in government and those in financial institutions.
A world without government control and the banking system sounds great. The one thing that stands in the way for me at the moment though, is understanding how we deal with people who are inclined to screw over others and especially be violent toward others. Without government controlling a justice system how are the disruptive people taken care of. I want to make it clear that I am not saying this as an argument against anarchism. Just that, as a newcomer who is still programmed by my upbringing, anarchy appeals to me in theory, but I need to work out this practical problem.
There have been many thoughts on this.
Of course, the main answer is "we'll figure it out once we need to", because when given a problem and the freedom to try different solutions, humans actually tend to come up with some pretty good stuff.
Now, my understanding is that you're asking "what do we do AFTER someone has done bad thing X?", so I won't bother with the multitude of ways that people have suggested for preventing bad thing X from happening in the first place.
Something that I see discussed quite often is, essentially, social ostracism. After all, no one wants to do business with a murder or a rapist, right?
And honestly, you probably don't want to do business with someone who does business with them, either, because that might indicate that they're the kind of people who think that sort of thing's ok.
So, obviously, whenever someone feels that someone else has in some way caused them damage or injury, they could take it to an arbitration organization. Think like court, except without the emo priest robes and the armed quasi-soldiers to make sure you go along with everything the emo priest says. This would tend to sort out lots of stuff that would happen in fits of emotion or drunkenness or simply personal error or misjudgement. Cool beans.
But, lets say you've got that total bastard who doesn't care about property, doesn't care if they hurt someone else, etc. Unlikely to sit down with you and an arbitrator to hash things out, yeah? So, what do you do?
Make an entry into the blockchain.
"This person, description and name of person along with any identifying information refused arbitration/refused to abide by arbitration over an accusation of insert bad thing X here. Until such a time as the issue is resolved to the satisfaction of victim and Acme Arbitration Org, he is blacklisted from all services"
And then he doesn't get any arbitration services from that organization. And they probably have an agreement with their clients that he doesn't get services from them, whatever they do for a living. And the other arbitration organizations probably pick it up too, because they don't want murderers and thieves running around in -their- district/region/whatever either. And they most likely have the same agreement with their clients as well.
And now bad guy Z can't buy food, can't get a haircut, buy gas, rent an apartment, buy property, clothes, get a carwash, hook up with a hooker, go to a bar, etc etc etc until he gets the issue sorted out like he should have in the first place.
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I would advise you to look toward a variety of anarchist teachers for expanding your knowledge in this area: Ron Paul, Tom Woods, Andrew Napolitano, Lysander Spooner, Murray Rothbard, Robert Higgs, and Bob Murphy!
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