Absolute autonomy means complete freedom from all rights and responsibilities. It is antithetical to freedom, and freedom must include (as a necessary but insufficient condition) freedom from absolute autonomy. Without that we do not have any rights at all. The negative program of no rights or responsibilities is not a straw man of absolute autonomy, it is exactly what the hyper individualistic anarchisms want as a conception of that which should be. To advocate for such chaos in the name of freedom and non hierarchy is disturbing (as are the Leninoid and Maoist cults that advocate for authoritarianism and totalitarianism in the name of socialism).

Rights and responsibilities imply freedom from absolute autonomy. The idea that one’s autonomy ought to end where another’s autonomy begins implies a prescription of ‘lack of absolute autonomy’ through a freedom from absolute autonomy. The question we ought to ask is where ought we place limits and why and for what ends? That is a question that anarchists are so divided upon that advocates of absolute autonomy, and people who want to organize rights and responsibilities non hierarchically, are considered part of the same ideology/tendency.

Absolute autonomy, if made into a minimum standard, negates itself. If it is not made into a minimum standard, then all we are left with are arbitrary minimum standards for treating each other; By extension the rule of arbitrariness replaces both hierarchical law and a conception of non hierarchical law, and hierarchy is effectively legalized in the name of anarchy. Taking power potentially means shifting minimum standards. Anarchistic fear of power means trying to abolish such standards altogether. Absolute autonomy is a revolt against all rules and not just all rulers.