From: "Old Goat" <olgoat-AT-kdsi.net>
Subject: Re: anarchy and crime...
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 17:53:36 -0600


----- Original Message -----
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?

Right, and you certainly won't mind if I kill you after first killing your
family and burning down your domicile.  No big deal since I don't think it's
wrong to do so.

 old goat
"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism
 operated by pygmies." -- Balzac