In my opinion anarchists limits the power a single person can wield in way that lets every person a roughly equal amount of power and influence on the world. So while bad actors would be able to do shitty things, they only have the power of one person and not the power of say, a big corporation, billions of dollars or politcal office with nearly unlimited decision making power to do shitty things. And from what we can see innour current world, bad actors are attracted to positions of powers as much as moths are attracted to electrical light.
And tbh, your examples of problems are on much lower scale than for example wars and climate change. I would rather deal with those decently petty problems instead, wouldnt you?
Except the majority of people will cede their share of the power to those who promise short-term gains. In theory, if people were perfectly rational, they would understand the full scope of their actions and act accordingly. They aren’t, though, so they don’t. They just wanna watch TV and play video games and let someone else worry about complicated stuff.
All power ultimately comes down to monopolization of coercion. People will be violent and vindictive. People will pollute if their personal benefit exceeds their personal consequences. They will offload those worries onto someone else, and bad actors will fill that void in a heartbeat. You don’t move forward by pretending people will spontaneously fill that gap of their own volition, you move forward by curating a system that makes the better choice the easy choice long enough to make the easy choice the right choice.
In my opinion anarchists limits the power a single person can wield in way that lets every person a roughly equal amount of power and influence on the world. So while bad actors would be able to do shitty things, they only have the power of one person and not the power of say, a big corporation, billions of dollars or politcal office with nearly unlimited decision making power to do shitty things. And from what we can see innour current world, bad actors are attracted to positions of powers as much as moths are attracted to electrical light.
And tbh, your examples of problems are on much lower scale than for example wars and climate change. I would rather deal with those decently petty problems instead, wouldnt you?
Except the majority of people will cede their share of the power to those who promise short-term gains. In theory, if people were perfectly rational, they would understand the full scope of their actions and act accordingly. They aren’t, though, so they don’t. They just wanna watch TV and play video games and let someone else worry about complicated stuff.
All power ultimately comes down to monopolization of coercion. People will be violent and vindictive. People will pollute if their personal benefit exceeds their personal consequences. They will offload those worries onto someone else, and bad actors will fill that void in a heartbeat. You don’t move forward by pretending people will spontaneously fill that gap of their own volition, you move forward by curating a system that makes the better choice the easy choice long enough to make the easy choice the right choice.