Context: a broken step is someone or something within your community which only the locals know to avoid.
Suppose we have a confederation, and someone within the confederation is accused of being dangerous to others in some way. If we kick them out then what stops them from going somewhere else and repeating the pattern? Or coming back for revenge? Or, Stirner Forbid, they’re innocent? And even if they are dangerous, is that any reason to turn them away? We make considerations when it comes to wolves and cacti but draw the line at cousins? But they could hurt the community… you see my dilemma.
Edit: this is not a hypothetical, but I don’t want to get into details. We’re not going to beat anyone up because we can’t confirm anything actually happened.
Soooo…the idea going in is already to avoid or kick someone out, im not an anarchist but i used to be one and I dont think my answer regarding this kind of hypothetical has changed since I was. So I’ll try to be as anarchisty as possible here. What happens to a person everyone locally knows to avoid in the first place? If theyre cut off from community and the necessary services those provide that leaves next to no hope for rehabilitation and also would mean they’d just kinda…die if cut off from a system based on mutual aide cause theyre to be avoided. I dont think any society should starve people as punishment, so it’s either you have to be unconditionally willing to help people or the whole thing is doesn’t really work. My conclusions for what to do isn’t anarchist but I figure any society anarchist or not cant jusr excile people to the wilderness or socially shun them.cause historically that’s tantamount to torturing someone to death
Not a hypothetical. Actual thing I’m currently dealing with.
Your first two sentences started with the word ‘Suppose’. If this is a real situation then I would need to know what is really happening. I dont really think what you have could really be called a confederation either, it’s an org at best and friend group at worst. A anarchist confederation is bigger structurally than something happening in your own life or it would make the news. So if its something youre currently dealing with, you can kinda just cut them off, maybe for an agreed upon period of time since you arent referring to a hypothetical anarchist society but a real life org and whoever gers the boot isn’t gonna lose access to food or shelter over it.