RESPONSE PAPER 2-IN DEFENSE OF ANARCHISM

The concept of political philosophy written by Robert P. Wolff, explains about the how the
state authority is different from the individual autonomy. In which he said “authority is right
to command and correlatively, the right to be obeyed. There raises the question which tells
that if the people in the state should also obey the unjust laws which is not beneficial for the
people. Then how the people will think the state is for the purpose which to serve the peoples
wish and not to suppress them. Then the people will decide to follow their own instincts in
order to determine what is just and unjust. If this happens then how we can say that the state
is for the betterment for the people. The argument made by the Wolff is opposed in the view
of this argument which tells that the peoples autonomy is better and they all are the ones who
decide what is good for them as the individuals but whether these type of decision are let
under the control of the people will be benefit for the state or the state can be governed like
this, it is a great question but in fact the answer to this question can lead to the two ways, the
first is the people have to obey and the next is about the individuals autonomy lead to
anarchism. The first one may be explained as the authority is the state which has the
sovereign power over the people who are governed under it and has the experience that the
individual people in the society. It always selects the right thing to be done in the state which
must be benefit for the people. But it may or may not satisfy the inserts of every people as the
individual but makes the decisions which are benefited at the large. But the argument further
made in the autonomy doesn’t support the utility which is benefit for the majority people.
Though it is invalid the state has the power to which is commend the people which tells them
to obey in order to survive in the state and acquire the benefits. As it argues for the individual
will as the most important which the state cannot concentrate on the individual yet the people
have their own right or the beneficial schemes for their selfish interest. Yet it must provide
the similar schemes as the people are obeyed by the state’s authority and they should get
some benefits. But this argument can lead us to the fair play obligation as the state gives the
benefits which may be benefit people and in the return the people must obey the state.
Whether it satisfies the individuals wishes, we don’t know but is it is done partly the some
may arose that the state is unjust for then and leads the people to think what they do is correct
and the reference to it the individual has the choice which he may think it is correct and he is
obliged to his own choice which is the individual autonomy. If all the individual arise like
this then it leads to the anarchy system of the government. But the problem is that this type of
the government doesn’t exist or impossible to exist. As it leads to the destruction of the state,
for example if the person thinks that the killing is the moral act which is right to be done in
order to possess the property of other. But according to the law killing is the immoral act and
must not be done under the law and it protects us in the just system of the state. Though the
anarchism sounds pretty supportive it may lead to the mass destruction of the state. So we
must follow the state but only it is just and doesn’t mean that we must not follow and rebel
against the state and form anarchism but we can cooperatively bring changes in the state and
we can make the state the beneficial as it is made for the people like us and we have the
power to rule over it and make the decisions. It can be done by the major political right is the
vote which is the major thing to change a state from just to unjust and vice versa. If the
people are selfless and then they are interested in the bring up of the wish of the majority
people we must see the person who is standing is the right person who can change the state
into the good and the just system. When the people of the likeminded are elected in the state
then the state can have the just syatem and they have the authority over the large person who
is followed and not objected then there is no need of the individual’s autonomy to be focused
on as it is concentrated equally on the each person in the state. By this way the authority can
be followed in the state.

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M.Narayana

B.A.LLB(Hons).