Anarchy Is Sophistry, Governments Are Certainty

One of the interesting lines that is dangled out before us by anarchists and minarchists is that humans are basically good and can function without government.

Point taken. 

Generally speaking, humans tend to be able to resolve problems without a centralized authority. If the local police force totally were to shut down and the government announced it was going out of business forever, I do not imagine total chaos erupting in my neighborhood at all. I am completely confident that the barbershop ajae would become a central contact point -- he's a smart, charismatic guy who cuts half the men's hair and has a good rapport with everyone. His wife makes sure that everyone is using the right trash bags and recycling in the right manner, and their beloved dog is friends with our dog and all the other dogs in the neighborhood. He would be our default neighborhood hetman. 

He is also intimately aware of the troublemakers. There's an ajumma behind our building who starts petty fights over parking all the time, even when it seems incredibly irrelevant, and he warned us about her. There's another woman who will claim that people are always looking into her window when the real thing that could make people uncomfortable is the fact that she is always looking out of her window. 

I can imagine him being able to settle disputes fairly. I also imagine that he would command enough authority to get myself and other men out en force  to stop some guy from beating his wife or kid, or to set up patrols if thievery became an issue.

A default order exists.

But order demands organization, not just for the sake of the authority who wishes to be more efficient, but because the men & women that empower the authority want it codified to protect themselves, and the authority himself (believe it or not) has an interest in protecting himself from the mob as well. He wants his job description to be clear, and he wants the tasks at hand to also be familiar. He wants a reliable means of how to act, and he wants a document that he can rest his authority on.

The very thing that makes anarchy manageable - the way that humans come together to do the right thing - is exactly what makes anarchy untenable and irrelevant.

Everybody wants a contract. Everybody wants to clear up the matter. Everybody wants certainty, and that is what governments basically are: structured certainty.

Any argument for anarchy is inherently sophist because it banks on extrapolating out from man's inclination to do right but then tries to drastically limit man's desire to be doubly right by creating formal standards and codes to ensure the continuation of justice.