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   gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 21:07:32 JST gnutelephony

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   • Damien Marie AtHope

   @flawed I think the word your searching for is consensus replacing conflict. This is how tribal councils operate, too. The great wonders of Turtle Island were not found in "things", like pyramids or walls or tombs; in real estate, but rather in people simply trying to learn to live better together. @DamienMarieAtHope

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     (Flawed) Anarchist ⚑ (flawed@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 21:07:33 JST (Flawed) Anarchist ⚑

     Stating the obvious
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     Anarchist society wont be an utopia.

     We all will have quite passionate & bitter conflicts with each other even in anarchist society, but we resolve them thru means other than mere violence or appeal to the morality (or lack there of) of bigger goon like State (which is what we do now & the whole point of Courts who allegedly give us so called "Justice"). We will have no overlord who imposes their will over our disputes & we will learn to live with knowing the fact that we cant impose our will unjustly over others & if we try to be unjust, others will fight back using physical violence if necessary & that violence is considered legitimate by most in society.

     Thats the only sensible way to live so far as I can see.

     Anarchist society will be as realistic human society as it will ever be, but built around disincentivising violence & dehumanisation. When each of us know we cant dominate the next person without serious consequences, we learn to create structures that disincentivises conflict, ones that are built around our needs where violence is not profitable to engage in.

     Current conflict "resolution" is primarily built around appealing to the threat of violence by a bigger goon like State (i.e imposing the will of ruling class over all of us), which is no resolution, rather it's an open threat by ruling class.

     In anarchist society (just like in every society — anarchist/not), ultimate tool will always be threat/manifestation of violence, but this threat will be from those who suffered/likely suffer harm because of our actions & inactions. They will have near equal power to me/you & if we try to be unfair to them, we need to operate under the assumption that we have near equal thing to lose.

     There will be no higher power to appeal to other than negotiating our way out of the dispute in question (or) learn to live with it.

     #anarchy #anarchism