Good lord, it's not a "rule". Anarchists want to make the cost of attempts to dominate one another too high for anyone to be able to. One traditional example of this is popularizing things like guns so that attempts to rule over minorities become incredibly costly to the ruler.
My question was not about etymology, but about governance. Gillis seems to say: cells are sociopathic, so lets not have a central nervous system and immune response, but lets give every cell a way to damage its neighbors and they'll form a superior organism.
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Apologists for the state claim it is an organic whole, each of us is but a cell in its grand functioning. Gillis and co. call bullshit on that. Conflating the state with society is a partisan con.
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I don't doubt the sincerity of your statement, but could you rephrase it without moral emotions? Do you think that there is a stable social equilibrium without a state monopoly on violence, and it works better? If so, is there any empirical evidence or game theoretic proof?
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