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I have a few questions regarding it, like what replaces areas where massively agreed upon things need to be determined such as radio standards for wireless devices, and what medical procedures are safe and effective?

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[–] uniqueid198x 17 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Anarchism as a political stance isn't an absense of governance. It is the stance that governance should be collaborative and, to the extent possible, voluntary. That means reducing heirarchies of all kind to the bare minimum needed to acomplish a goal.

For standardized things such as these examples you've given, they already work in an anarchist way. 802.11 is created by the ieee lan/man standards comnitee, which takes input from a lot of groups to formulate the standard. The standard itself is fully opt-in, you don't have to implement it as written, your stuff just won't work unless you do.

Safety and effectiveness of medical procedures isn't determined by a standards body, but rather by evolving consensus among medical professionals. What one thinks is safe, another may see as risky. As an example, in the US tonsil removal used to be considered safe and done often. Now its considered a last-resort procedure.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Wasn't that the government style the libertarian's in the "Libertarians walk into a bear" was post kicking the Grafton local government was?

[–] uniqueid198x 8 points 2 years ago

I'm sorry, could you rephrase the question?

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