Allanea wrote:Bombs are not natural.
So? Why do I care?
If lightning were constantly striking in Ashdod and reaping people left and right I would be bloody terrified of it, natural or not.
If lightning were constantly striking in Ashdod and reaping people left and right, it wouldn't be natural now would it?
Allanea wrote:TIL Trail of Tears, Stolen Generations, and Russianization weren't oppression.
Conflating 'we have taken some children from their families because our CPS workers are extremely racist'' and ''the holocaust' renders the definition of oppression meaningless. The modern USA mistreats minorities. So does Israel. So does Australia. This however does not mean that modern Americans, Israelis, or Australians are liable to put whatever minroity it is in death chambers.
Sure. OK. I believe you.
Allanea wrote:The practice of protecting minorities is much like the welfare state, an aberration of a single time period, and something that will be corrected in the future.
Welfare states (in the sense of 'some kind of state provision for the indigent so they won't starve') have existed for centuries before the words 'welfare' and 'state'were strung together.
That's great but states in general have never faced the problem of negative global population growth.
It is true that moral economies existed, but that was before profit motive existed. Moral economies cannot exist because the ideals behind them are dead, having been replaced by capitalist profit motive. What will likely happen is that people who are successful and well paid will fortify themselves in ever increasingly small portions of "civilization", while the majority of people are just sort of left to die in slums or retirement homes, because profit.