> If there’s a line to get on a crowded bus, do you wait your turn and refrain from elbowing your way past others even in the absence of police? > If you answe

> If there’s a line to get on a crowded bus, do you wait your turn and refrain from elbowing your way past others even in the absence of police? > If you answered “yes”, then you are used to acting like an anarchist! No, if you answered "yes", then that means you live in a society that maintains bus stops, and buses, and these buses are expected to come at regular intervals and stop right in front of the first person waiting in the line, and (for example) not stop fifty meters from the stop sign (and in the middle of the road), forcing everybody to run toward the bus before it takes off again, because there are five other buses and eight illegally parked cars between the bus and the stop sign. In other words, being able to wait in line in an orderly fashion is not (only) the result of human decency. It's a result of decades of social trial-and-error, forcing people to (for example) not park at bus stops, and eventually convincing enough people that there is a working social system. I guess one can build a convincing case for anarchism (I particularly liked Le Guin's take in The Dispossessed) but this example is a straight-up first world problem.