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If you take a step back from your position on the controversy, Conflict Resolution is exactly what the average-joe means when they say, "Anarchy doesn't work." It's true that most people will seek a 3rd-party to resolve an issue if they feel they are on the losing end. Children will cry for mommy or daddy, students call on the teacher, neighbors dial the cops and the petty take you to court.

By Aragorn and his sympathizers putting out the question, "Are the oogles, and their actions, anarchist?", they're looking at the broader milieu as the 3rd-party to resolve this conflict.

Seeking a single, normative path to resolve conflicts in anarchy doesn't seem very anarchist to me. Maybe it's not anarchy you crave if you fear the escalation of violence.

*BTW: I think the oogle or oogles who fucked with Aragorn are chicken shits. It also CAN'T be said that Aragorn is NOT a dick who DOESN'T deserve all the dislike, hatred and malignment from his critics.