You ' ve loaded up this example in odd ways . If everyone will really benefit from the road , then presumably they can be convinced . If they can ' t be convinced , then the question of benefit has to be examined again . If , having failed to convince me of the benefits of a new roadand having disregarded my objectionsyou impose a road on mewith whatever shared consequences made a vote necessary in the first placeand then you complain if I make the best of the situation imposed on me , I ' m not sure I ' m likely to see myself as a free rider . Now , anarchistic values naturally make some kinds of decisionmaking difficult , since we don ' t have any of the usual rationales for disregarding the interests and preferences of interested parties . That just means that we will have to learn to approach decisionmaking differently , just as we will have to rethink property , exchange , etc . The notion that anarchy will be a realization of democracy , rather than a final abandonment of the governmental principle which still applies to the purest democracy in a variety of ways is far too common among anarchists . That probably has a lot to do with our sense that successful societies get things done in that gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet sense and the obvious difficulties of rethinking societal success so that different things get done , in ways more in line with anarchistic values .