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Oh no, Anarchists!

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Oh no, Anarchists!

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What’s to stop the community from getting it horrendously wrong, as human communities have done so many times in the past?
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  What stops it currently?
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    Laws (at least somewhat) and the state’s monopoly on violence
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      Oh states don’t get anything horrendously wrong?
      
      Huh, didn’t know that.
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        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.

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