Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 15:20:06 -0800
From: Madalynn Bohm <yertletheturtle-AT-ulink.net>
Subject: Re: anarchy and crime...


Perhaps someone will want to accuse me of arguing semantics and avoiding 
the real issue, but it seems that crime cannot, by definition, exist in an 
anarchist society.  If crime is the violation of certain rules forced on 
one person by another and in an anarchist society no one will be making 
rules for anyone else, then the two are mutually exclusive.  I suppose a 
person could, theoretically, commit a crime by violation their own 
moral/ethical standards, but such a "crime" would hardly concern anyone but 
the perpetrator, right?