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I say "apparently" because I've heard that it's the case, I can't confirm that myself.

Apparently the issue is that it assumes that anarchism has issue with a vague concept of "authority", when it is actually anti-statist and opposed to all hierarchy. These are pretty different things and a non-hierarchical method of obtaining authority is theoretically possible, but I don't think it's practical. There's a reason I'm not an anarchist myself.

Apparently “on authority” is kind of a bad refutation of anarchism, which makes it very funny that people resort to dismissing it instead of pointing out it’s flaws.

I’ve literally never seen an anti-war person argue against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Why? It’s the most sane argument against it.

I know it’s only tangentially related.

We have to be there, proving to these people who are becoming alienated that our alternative works. Otherwise, they’ll fall to despair or fascism. I believe that the principle of mutual aid is one thing that anarchists got objectively right.

If we could use quantum computing to make a perfectly designed genetic method of mosquito elimination, couldn’t we just change their behavior to be less harmful instead? Why would we kill them when we have the ability to modify their molecular structure like putty? Why not just make them live out the rest of their days in peace after making them only capable of digesting nectar?

Given that mosquitoes hurt a lot of people, I support the general idea, but once we have super advanced magic adjacent technology, we could bypass any moral concerns entirely

Seems like the issue is invasive species, a problem caused by people, rather than mosquitoes as a whole.

Removing all invasive mosquitoes is just cleaning up our mistakes and a lot less morally worrying than killing all mosquitoes just because they’re harmful to us. Of course getting rid of them because they’re harmful to us is somewhat valid, but getting rid of invasive mosquitoes is a good compromise anyways.

My problems with it are mostly from a vegan perspective. Humans have done far more harm to the planet than mosquitos have. Why are we justified in killing all of them but other animals aren’t justified in killing us?

If we are going to eliminate any animal, though, mosquitos should be it.

Capitalists are probably incapable of doing this without accidentally killing far more universally considered important animals. I’d trust socialist states to do this more.

The only thing “institutional” that’s causing this is years of shitty Reddit memes. See hexbear for unreddited anarchists.

They’re definitely heavily astroturfed or something. It makes no sense for outright self-described anarchists to care what state is doing the oppressing

The left doesn’t focus enough on racism. Most radical anti-racist parties got shut down by FBI assassination, which means that anti-racism scares the US.

Nothing you’ve said here is something I was arguing against. There’s a huge difference between mathematically calculating a good labor economy and basing an entire moral system on arbitrary calculations. Labor hours are concrete, “happiness” isn’t.

Also I agree that landlords suck and that was the point of what I was saying with the example. That a statement as nonsensical as “landlords good actually” can be justified with mathematical utilitarianism because of it’s inherently arbitrary nature

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