I’m waiting for statists to offer a compelling solution to any form of child abuse or human exploitation.

Anarchist perspectives on punishment vary depending on the community, but decisions would typically be made collectively. There are different types of anarchists with different types of solutions. If an act violates the Non-Aggression Principle (NAP) such as child abuse, the offender would face consequences. In many anarchist communities, punishments for such violations could be swift, severe, or even lethal.

However, since most societies operate under statist systems, we should focus on reforming the current legal framework to impose harsher penalties for child abusers, rather than continuing with lenient sentences. Just an idea that would help currently!

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Would any of these collectivist communes render the proper justice, execution, for child rape?

Yes. Immediate, public and painful death. That’s a commonly held belief for some types of anarchists.

Would you join such a community? If so, don’t you think others would too? I would gladly opt into an HOA type community that was extremely strict on rape and child abuse.

I think that it would be helpful to allow survivors to decide adequate punishment or retribution once they reach a determined age of adulthood in an anarchist society. (Hypothetical anarchist society)

Some survivors might choose banishing abusers to an inhospitable island, death, financial retribution etc. If the survivor declined to decide punishment the community could decide.

I’d bet there are some anarchists now that could argue that the state stands in their way from achieving adequate justice for survivors.