"Human beings are at their best when they are free of authority." Agree or disagree?

[Confusious]

9. Wouldn't work

Even with authority, people act in ways which are not "the best."

They're not acting out against authority or society, they're bad people.

Not having any authority would just let the rednecks play king of the neighborhood.

As far as gaining authority through other people, we don't always act in ways which would allow that. You couldn't meet enough people in your lifetime to have a nation, for example. People in groups also act in ways which the wouldn't alone. A single person might stop a mugging, but given a group of people, they might not. That "might not" increases in relation to the size of the group.

People need some authority to get things done, push society forward and keep order ( Some law and order in always needed to protect those who cannot protect themselves ). Otherwise, we'd all be a collection of people working in their own interest, which is an example of libertarianism, which leads to somalia.