Bowers: A few theorists hold the extreme view that society could flourish in a condition of anarchy, the absence of government. Some of these theorists have even produced interesting arguments to support that position. One writer, for example, contends that anarchy is laissez-faire capitalism taken to its logical extreme. But these theorists' views ignore the fundamental principle of social philosophy -- that an acceptable social philosophy must promote peace and order. Any social philosophy that countenances chaos, i. e. , anarchy, accordingly deserves no further attention. The reasoning in Bowers's argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that ['the argument fails to show that laissez-faire capitalism deserves to be rejected as a social philosophy', 'the truth or falsity of a view is not determined by the number of people who accept it as true', 'the meaning of a key term shifts illicitly during the course of the argument', 'it is unreasonable to reject a view merely because it can be described as extreme']