nexalacer:You've framed every argument we put forward as though we're arguing from the desire to have a bunch of lone wolves living off of each other's flesh
I disagree. I think your arguments simply lacked a framework. I just came over from a post where one of your anarchists was asking the same question I had about whether or not you would actually use a nuke against the innocent slaves of an evil state that was trying to invade your anarchist area. The answer was 1) no one would ever attack an anarchist area and 2) war would be obsolete anyway. . . .seriously? Your answer to questions that are hard to deal with is that the situation will conspire so that you don't have to deal with them. That sounds pretty utopian to me. Utopianism lacks a framework.
nexalacer: people want to work together to live prosperous lives
Not quite. People CAN work together to live prosperous lives. People WANT to get whatever they can. Because people constantly fight over resources it is more stable to structure the situation so that their competing desires coutneract each other, rather than to assume that they won't have competing desires. Thus the division of power between the people and the state and between different branches of the state.
nexalacer: they need to give one group the power to enforce
Correct. You think that everyone should be their own dictator. I think that everyone should answer to a government that in turn answers to them. In your system what would stop slavery? Since no one will legislate moral rules the only way to stop slavery would be to refuse to do business with slave owners. However, slave owners would be producing goods and services at more competative prices than non-slave owners. Since you want to create a system with constant, vicious competition it is inevitable that some people will lose everything. Those people will then become slaves. Do you support slavery? A state can easily discourage slavery. How will your system automatically discourage slavery?