Anarchy & the non aggression principle.

Anarchy & the non aggression principle.

The whole concept is so anti human.. they do not have a realistic view of humanity.  Peace? Non aggression? We're talking humans here, right? We are warlike, brutal, & animalistic.. a lot more than we like to admit. The whole reason we have organized ourselves into regional governments is to protect us, collectively, from other brutal, aggressive humans, & their collectives. The entire history of mankind is one story after another of this aggression. So they can drone on about some utopian 'non aggression principle', but NO human throughout history has been able to live in that kind of state. There ALWAYS has to be a deterrence for any society to live in peace.

That is why i see the major flaw at the root of this ideology being the need for a 'new man'.  It is an idealistic, unrealistic dream of humanity, that ignores our basic nature. IF you could change the human animal, you might be able to make us into peaceful, harmonious beings. But we are predators. Humans have few natural enemies in the wild, but other humans have always been the most deadly ones. It is like caribou deciding that they are going to live in peace with the wolves. They can decide that all they want, or eloquently describe their perfect world, where caribou & wolves live together in peace. But it won't work, because the wolves are still wolves. They might nod in agreement, at first, but they will NOT keep the pact, & they will begin to kill & eat the caribou. So the caribou better use what they have as defense mechanisms for this kind of natural behavior, or they will go extinct.

It is the same with people. If there are some altruistic humans out there, they are dependent on other more violent defenders to keep their personal peace. The quakers & amish come to mind. They cannot live under brutal totalitarian rule, but must flee it.

Some of my wife's ancestors were from the border of germany & france, during the reformation. They were palatinates, from that region in s. germany. They were persecuted, along with the french huguenots. They fled to holland, england, ireland, & eventually, america. Mostly PA. They would have preferred to live in peace & harmony, but Louis 14th would not let them. He didn't care about their peaceful ways or desires. So they needed the protection & sympathy of reformers who had equally sharp swords, to defend them from religious annihilation.

That is what the history of man is.. one man's or group's aggression toward another.. for whatever reason. We cannot just 'declare' that nature to be null & void, & say, 'why can't we all just get along?' There is only one way to live in peace: Strength. There is only one solution for human aggression: deterrence. We can speak softly, but we better carry that big stick.