The better question is: Whats so great about forcibly controlling other peoples lives? Do you think that putting a gun against somebodies head and telling them what they can and can't do is acceptable? Is this an effective approach to making the world a better place? If not then you should be opposed to any form of government. Because that is effectively what you are doing when you support the government, the system is designed so that people can hide from the responsibility of these atrocities behind the curtain of government, despite the fact that anyone who participates in this sham is directly responsible.
At the core, what anarchy is about is taking complete personal responsibility for your own life. As typically the individual has more interest in preserving and bettering ones self than anyone else. Supporting government is the dumping of certain responsibilities off onto "society" as whole, with the claim that we are incapable of sufficiently taking care of them ourselves, which is a complete lie.
So, what anarchists want to do is precisely whatever the fuck we want to. Because it is our god given right to do exactly that. Ideally, without forcibly infringing on anyone elses right to do the same.
so pretty much the three I mentioned? I am just curious if there are any specific things.
I see, specific things. Maybe to be able to help your fellow man without fear of reprisal? Yes, people have been arrested and at least temporarily encarcerated for feeding the homeless.
I think the fear is that as more and more regulation comes into play we may end up in a similar situation to China under Mao or Russia. How far is too far? Did you watch the video on the Battle of the Beanfield? All that violence because the councils didn't want a festival becoming permanent.
that's funny, I have never been afraid of that. Seems like the people who make that claim are often running an illegal commercial kitchen, which does not seem like a big deal until they give a bunch of homeless people without insurance food poisoning. I think I had a Spanish teacher in high school make me watch that one. There are lots of ways to feed the homeless.
Often the homeless end up feeding themselves from bins. Who's to say that won't give them food poisoning? Things are rarely straight forward and simple, there's always more to stories than meets the eye. That's why I feel every point of view should be heard. It's been informative reading all the comments on here. They are all valid points, even if they do disagree with each other.
when you get involved you become responsible. There was a story of a guy who built a set of stairs in a park on his own. Some were upset the city was going to remove them. But obviously those stairs were not up to code and someone would be injured on them, then who pays for that?
There was outcry because his stairs were only a few hundred dollars and the stairs the city then put in cost 100 times as much, but no one is going to slip down those and die very easily.
No, what you already mentioned is a vastly oversimplified view which has a clear intention of belittling the importance of true freedom. Which is pathetic, by the way. I explained it as concisely as anyone could ever hope to in my last paragraph. It is characterized by it's non specificity, that's the point. If you took a moment to ponder what anarchy IS instead of just making smug dismissive comments you would realize that.
I personally have trouble thinking of anything I am not free to do now.
I guess it depends on the country you're in. In Australia we now have anti-assosiation laws that prevent some groups from gathering or wearing club colours.
That is fucked up, if you have any sort of hate speech laws and you don't have freedom of assembly then you are not living in a free country. It's like they are trying to turn it back into a prison colony. Maybe Australia is ready for a Trump or a Brexit?