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So anarchy - lack of coercive hierarchy is when there is coercive hierarchy? Nope, you are just not especially smart person.
There is no such thing as a "lack of coercion". That's what you can't understand - coercion is a permanent element of humanity. Human beings can't not be coercive.
Hierarchy or no hierarchy, someone stronger than you (and there's' always a bigger fish) is going to beat you to death for what they want.
Belief in an absence of coercion is a disorder.