[knieveltech]

Certainly you aren't the first person to postulate that and it's a very valid point, but what if you could get people to organize without coercion? Doesn't that at least sound appealing? Like something worth striving for?

[theblueadept111]

I think the humans are hard-wired to view/organize each other into hierarchies. All social interaction is based on the currency of hierarchical standing to some degree. You can't even have a disagreement with someone without it being interpreted as a 'challenge' to their standing. So coercion isn't really the best way to explain why one person (strong) dominates another (weak). Yes, strength determines the outcome, but the reason for the entire dance is to establish the hierarchy.

I don't believe you can have any form of "anarchy" (or any other social system) where people do not struggle to form a hierarchy, because that's what it means to be human, for better or worse.