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The point is precisely that we trust the advice of the architect in this matter because they are more knowledgeable than us, not because they or someone else imposed their authority on us.
And if they talk shit about how to educate children in the orphanage, we won't trust their advice because they are not knowledgeable then, and we do not let them impose their authority on us.
Again. If you go and try to remove the cornerstone or a building because you want to change the aesthetic and the architect says "that will cause building to collapse", and you go to do it anyway, then who is going to stop you if you refuse to comply with the advice?
Well the people that are benefiting from that orphanage would not be very happy and probably would stop you.
And on a more metaphorical level in an anarchist society no one person should have the power to ruin what it too the whole community to build.
By you not wanting the architect to impose his better judgement on you, you are imposing your stupidity on other people, and they in turn have the same right to reject your ability to do so.
The point is precisely not to remove the stone if someone with pertinent knowledge/expertise/whatever says it's a bad thing, because then their authority makes temporarily sense.