I am an Anarchist. Not a "Libertarian" or a "Galtist" but an Anarchist.

[Egalitarian Thug]

120. Your position regarding the Spanish Anarchists boils down to might makes right.

They were killed by both the Soviet Communists and the Fascist government (with the blessings of the British and Americans, the crux of Chomsky's addition), so it must be a bad idea.

So, to expand on that premise, in the practical, real world terms you seem to prefer, there was nothing wrong with the genocide of native Americans, or the European devastation and ongoing subjugation of the African continent. In a system of might makes right, corporations are absolutely entitled to devastate the globe wherever and however they see fit. But wait, when it comes to you being on the receiving end of that equation, it isn't so right. Is it?

Your four dismissive words, and the subsequent replies trying to justify them, demonstrate exactly where you are coming from. You are absolutely in the American majority, there's no debating that, but where you fail is in extrapolating where it inevitably leads.

We had this thing, about 300 years ago called The Enlightenment, where a bunch of opinionated, arrogant, loud mouthed, eggheads came to the conclusion that there is a better way. That maybe force is not the best way to nurture humanity's potential. That just maybe, people are not simply dumb brutes that respond only to force if given the option of deciding what they, themselves would choose.

Your argument, and along with it the whole of American society, eschews that idea. There is no middle ground in this debate. Either people are equal and we are morally required to move away from violence and coercion, or people are subject to the vagaries of fashionable hierarchies and political facades.