On laws, in general

On laws, in general

Posted Jul 1, 2004 15:38 UTC (Thu) by angdraug (subscriber, #7487)
In reply to: On laws, in general by markhb
Parent article: On dealing with Microsoft

I submit that quoting anarchist propaganda falls exactly into the category of comments ESR was talking about

What was quoted wasn't anarchist propaganda, it was anarchist analysis. And my impression is that LWN's audience is not "soccer moms", but mainly critically thinking IT professionals who can take an argument for its worth, without running away crying "gasp! anarchists!".

Those mothers, taken as a group, have as their overriding priority the safety of their children, and they are perfectly happy with any reasonable restrictions on freedom (read: PATRIOT Act) that appear to support that goal.

And that is the reason why anarchist analysis of laws is relevant: it demonstrates that it is not necessary to allow "soccer moms" and politicians to decide what's good for us.

Anarchist sentiments are about as far in opposition to that as one can possibly imagine.

Which further proves that these sentiments are correct. Unless you mean to say that opposition to bad laws like PATRIOT Act is wrong, of course.

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