The recent discussion with
Kerodin and the
Arctic Patriot got me thinking again. About the coming unpleasantness.
Once the shooting starts, if we abandon our principles in order to win, have we won? Can you stop acting like government after the war? If not, the struggle was in vain since there is no gain in swapping out one gang of violent, unprincipled monsters for a new gang of violent, unprincipled monsters. Not even if they include you.
The only possible point in flipping the social pyramid upside down in this way would be in hoping that when the smoke clears you end up nearer the top. But that's not good enough for me. I don't want to flip the pyramid; I want a civilization based upon the
Zero Aggression Principle and
The Covenant of Unanimous Consent. I want there to be
no pyramid, where some exist by coercively using others, at
all. I don't think you can get there by acting like those in government act.
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