Thanks for the reply nwbitcoin.
I think I understand your position better now. Let me explain why I still don't like it, though
But first...
You ask what stops me from shooting people in the head? This is where it gets difficult because you are asking someone, with a similar moral compass to you. I wouldn't go and do something like that because its morally wrong. For 70% of the population, this is the only answer you will get. However, that last 30% is the problem. We might like to think they are all the criminals in prisons, but its not actually true.
Do you really think the % is this high? I think we have different degree of trusting people in general, I consider the % of troublemakers (shaped that way by upbringing, society, or simply born that way) to be considerably less. Basically I work with the assumption that people are generally a decent bunch. Put them into a tough spot, though and they can quickly become selfish or downright evil. That's why I feel it's important to help shape society - because the very environment we live in might just be the biggest influence in what sort of people we are. In other words - a society like ours is bound to produce an abundance of sociopaths. For a sociopath is one who fears society and today it's easy to fear society, especially while conflating society with government and the state.
Most of them are the psychopaths who have never been outed. They run companies, they are your managers, the people who would say anything to get ahead. Without regulations, there are no retributions, and without retributions, there are no reasons not to do what it takes to get what you want.
As you say, sociopaths (I assume when you use the word psychopath you mean something like I mean by sociopath) are rampant in our society. Not surprising at all. And there is nothing a sociopath likes better than a position of power. For when he has power, he has control over that which he fears. I agree this is a problem.
But don't you see that if we are creating regulations, meaning
universal sets of rules and coupling them with institutions (backed by force) to enforce them, we are giving the sociopaths exactly what they want and need? Now instead of going around stealing other peoples stuff and randomly shooting pedestrians in the face, like you feared they would do - they run your government, your police force, your money and what have you.
Power corrupts and power also attracts the corrupted. The way to deal with this is not by trying to find the right people to write the right set of regulations -
universal sets of rules, but to let
everybody find their own rules.
People are afraid of Anarchy as of being a state without rules. This is nonsense, people are so obsessed with rules, they will instantly make up new ones. The crucial difference is whether we accept diversity, or try to force everyone to live by a single universal set of rules. The best ones, written by the brightest and most well-meaning people of all, of course.
My signature sums it up.
