db0 to Lefty [email protected]English • 5 months agoOh no, Anarchists!slrpnk.netimagemessage-square281fedilinkarrow-up1953arrow-down1104cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1849arrow-down1imageOh no, Anarchists!slrpnk.netdb0 to Lefty [email protected]English • 5 months agomessage-square281fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•5 months agoWhat’s to stop the community from getting it horrendously wrong, as human communities have done so many times in the past?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•5 months agoLaws (at least somewhat) and the state’s monopoly on violence
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-25 months agoOh states don’t get anything horrendously wrong? Huh, didn’t know that.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•5 months agoNo, they definitely do. It’s just a wider cast net of more people so the error margin is lower. Think of getting 1 vs 10 vs 1000 people to guess how many jellybeans in a jar.
What’s to stop the community from getting it horrendously wrong, as human communities have done so many times in the past?
What stops it currently?
Laws (at least somewhat) and the state’s monopoly on violence
Oh states don’t get anything horrendously wrong?
Huh, didn’t know that.
No, they definitely do. It’s just a wider cast net of more people so the error margin is lower. Think of getting 1 vs 10 vs 1000 people to guess how many jellybeans in a jar.