Comments on: Ernst Juenger on Capital Punishment https://www.peoplevstate.com/?p=2259 fairly undermining public confidence in the administration of justice Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:01:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: Ernst Juenger Anarch https://www.peoplevstate.com/?p=2259&cpage=1#comment-3686 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:01:32 +0000 http://www.peoplevstate.com/?p=2259#comment-3686 “The anarch knows the fundamental law” – this passage struck my eye in my own reading recently. What is that law? I would suggest something similar to karma is intended – simple pragmatic action and reaction. Ultimately, independently of the state and its laws, we suffer (or enjoy) the consequences of our actions. Whether we suffer or enjoy depends only how these consequences fulfill or not our personal goals – society’s, religion’s, the state’s ideas of what is right and desirable or evil and undesirable are altogether irrelevant. The ethos of the anarch vs the morality of state and society.

Though Juenger does not say it explicitly in these passages, I believe this also highlights a difference between the anarch and anarchist. The anarchist does not know of this fundamental law, of its validity in whatever and despite whatever state it happens to coincide with in each case. The absence or destruction of the state would also make no difference, except perhaps that the action of this law would become more transparent, less disguised by the state law and punishment.

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