Idk I have managed to live my whole life without inflicting violence on others. Literally never been in a physical altercation.
Idk I have managed to live my whole life without inflicting violence on others. Literally never been in a physical altercation.
Well, presumably you outsource the job of inflicting violence to others, like most people do. Voting for pretty much any political candidate is equivalent to doing so.
And every time you use hackernews you’re contributing to the climate crisis in some form or other. These kinds of comments are not productive.
There’s a difference between the two.
All politics is based on violence because violence is how laws are enforced. Thus by participating in politics (which includes voting), one implicitly endorses violence.
By contrast, an online service is not “based on destroying the climate”, that’s at best an unfortunate side effect, and possibly not even that as there are plenty of hosters that are climate neutral now.
More importantly, the fact that Internet infrastructure is damaging to the climate is widely recognized as a problem and there is a large-scale effort to fix it. There isn’t an effort to remove violence from the state though; the state is effectively defined by violence and anyone who supports the modern state in any way is inflicting violence by proxy.
if you genuinely think "All politics is based on violence " please do not participate in political discussions
> By contrast, an online service is not “based on destroying the climate”
And my voting is not based on doing violence to others, and I don’t have a reasonable alternative, and we both know the consequences even if it’s not our intention to bring them about. You are drawing your own line in the sand and sorting things into arbitrary categories on either side of the line. This debate is pointless, so I’m moving on. Have a good one mate.