** What about human nature? Don’t we need laws and police and other authoritarian institutions to protect us from people with ill intent?

** So what would you do about people who only care about themselves, who are willing to do anything to others for their own benefit?

** If there were no government, what would you do if a gang were terrorizing your community?

** But in spaces where government has broken down, like Somalia or Camden, New Jersey, we often see incredible violence.

** What about the tragedy of the commons?

** Isn’t equality impossible, except equality before the law?

** But if we overthrow the government without offering something to take its place, what’s to stop something really nasty from filling the power vacuum?

** A society without government might work on a small scale, but we live in a globalized world with a population of billions.

** But why call yourself an anarchist? Doesn’t that just alienate people?

** It’s all right to protest peacefully, as long as you don’t do anything violent.

** Do you really think you can make a difference?

** But isn’t this utopian? Isn’t it better to be practical?