Hypothetically, if lawlessness occurs, what would you do?
Would every individual react traumatically to such an extreme case?
I would join the bandwagon and be lawless myself.
If lawlessness is alright for the government surely it’s ok for the individual.
Clarity:
Government does not exist, nor would the law choose to be lawless.
For lawlessness to occur, it would have to be overthrown by the masses or some disaster would have to take place.
I’m interested in how the human individual reacts/what the individual does in such a circumstance where he or she is free to do anything.
Clarity: All governments have been lawless one degree to another choosing to pay attention to law only when it benefits themselves to.
The individual is oppressed by government.
With government gone they are given free reign within limits of their surroundings to do whatever they please when regulation is removed.
“They” you mean the government or people?
If the government and law are destroyed by whatever destructive means, the surviving masses are free to do whatever they want. This means the individual, in this new lawless society, is no longer subordinated by the government via the body of people that formerly made the law.
So…What would the individual do in this type of lawlessness? What would you do, SV?
I’m pretty sure I would write a very long rowdy bombastic arrogant post about lawlessness and take the opposite position from whatever everybody was saying, probably with generous helpings of juvenile snotty sarcasm. I would remain loyal to lawlessness in print.
I applaud “Typist” for being such a Good Samaritan
A great deal of what is now called illegal or immoral activities by the state.
That is exactly what I would do.
I believe in no divine “God” and I am not foolish enough to think that there is an afterlife. I live for the pleasures and self indulgence of this world alone.
I am a opportunist by my nature.
For me nothing would be out of my reach.
I would live like a god that is if I could succeed long enough without being taken down by another individual or group of others.
You can’t think about how the human individual would react in isolation, you have to think about how people would react in a context of other people. For instance, if people all around me were “capitalizing” on lawlessness and hurting each other to satisfy even their most whimsical desires, I would, as I often do, try to supplement what I see lacking. I would try to create rules. I would get people to agree on boundaries and mutual laws of decency. That’s how I would react. Maybe in the initial lawlessness I might do something I couldn’t do before because of legal pressures, but I think that would grow old quickly. I would learn that some rules are good and practical.
I you think about it, the world was morally and culturally lawless in man’s beginning. Every human law, legal system, and enforced norm that’s ever been known and that exists presently originated because man thought it was better to have them.
Hilarious.
Even with enacted laws individuals, groups, and governments act in ways that are lawless.
The creation of law is probably the most pointless creation ever in history unless your a government organization that conceals their lawlessness within the legislation of law.
How can we conceal our lawlessness? I know! Will enact it to law!
“Enacted laws” don’t fundamentally change the world into a lawful place. The world is fundamentally lawless (besides the laws of physics - a different kind of law). Beings decide to have boundaries and restrictions. And of course they can decide to break them as well.
Naturally when a government organization conceals their own lawlessness in a form of law the majority of people remain gleefully ignorant of what transpires.
The success of a government organization counts on this every time.
All forms of laws are broken, circumvented, or monopolized by that of a loophole hence why I look at the creation of law as being pointless.
The creation of law makes it much more difficult for an individual to fuck underaged girls.
Given our never-ending experiences of some forms of ‘lawlessness’, I’d say the first thing most people would do is pillage and loot–taking everything they think other people have that they don’t have. Then they’d be faced with what to do with it all, if electrical power had been shut off and markets had been reduced to nothing. Assuming this to be a true outcome, initially, of total lawlessness, I think, it’s been shown that lawlessness ultimately leads to law. What that law entails depends on who comes out on top during the lawless period.
In the meantime, I’d do whatever I could to preserve myself and my family from the depravity of lawlessness.
I would grab a gun, find a bunker, and protect my family–on occasion going out to scavange for food and other necessities.
You know, I honestly think that if one day people woke up and found that the government didn’t exist any more, the vast majority of peoples’ lives would go on as it would any other day. Yes, a few people would be scared and confused. Yes, a few ass hole jocks would get into their big SUVs and go terrorize people. There would probably be marginally more crime than before, but farmers would still farm, producers would still produce, sellers would still sell and buyers would still buy. Life would go on almost completely uninterrupted, because people need to live. The lack of a government doesn’t change that. People would want and need all the things that they wanted and needed before, and they would do the vast majority of things they did before. I don’t agree with the chaos scenario. I agree that you might want to get a gun, but you wouldn’t have to lock yourself up and scavenge for food as if a nuclear attack had occurred, lol. You’d be the only guy in the neighborhood doing that, while the rest of them just go on their day-to-day business like nothing ever happened.
Reastablish law, as the poet John Keats said "“Can you not see a world of troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
Then I think you must misunderstand how conflict originates in the first place FJ.