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RE: "Life is hard" - Profound encouragement from three unlikely words
My parents always used to say "Life is hard in the United States" a phrase they had taken from their Filipino friends. Most people here don't have any servants. I have a theory that anarchists really just don't like their parents. Usually people who hate the government really hate their fathers. Maybe that is why it is so emotional?
The theory I am working on is most individual anarchists have been harmed by 'society' in some manner(or maybe even harmed in full view of society). In the context of 'justice' this becomes very problematic.
Not justice in a 'law and order' sense of external social constructs, but justice in the sense of an individual construct. Once a society has failed multiple times in the area of justice it is logical to start assigning the principle that society is not interested in justice in terms of individual justice.
I suppose the reason it looks emotional, is there is no escape from the thing or people that harm* you, and when friends or family support the harmful system, it makes them look associated to it.
FTR, I didn't hate my father, grandfathers or mother.
*harm in a subjective manner
Could be, perhaps they have fought with city hall or fought the law and lost. That can be upsetting.
The term 'upsetting' lacks nuance.
City Hall, The Law, there are many, many social constructs that can create problems in justice.
Let's say there was some squishy concept like 'right to self defense' and a social construct banned your right to self defense. Would that still be only bothersome in your views?
It kind of comes down to a question of who owns social objectivity and how much skin they have on the line.
You tell me
So that would be inconsistent to maybe making sure everyone has a permit to use self defense.
Are we having fun with social objectivity yet?
a permit?