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> Individual violence can useful on the path towards a solution, but it is never the solution itself. That's a bold statement to make. When mankind is a space
by goldenkey 5y ago
> Individual violence can useful on the path towards a solution, but it is never the solution itself.
That's a bold statement to make. When mankind is a space civilization, the speed of light will prevent any kind of universal police force from responding to events in an expedient manner. The limit of expansion is guilds and retribution. Defense is never impenetrable. Only punishment and retribution deter future infringements. If you cannot extend your philosophy to the future of civilization, it is a flawed one.
Alliances are the way pretty much all sci-fi writers have written the climate of that era. And for good reasons. When you don't have the ability for defensive policing, all you have left is deterrence through retribution. And that is either personalized or clan/guild based.
- spywaregorilla 5y ago> If you cannot extend your philosophy to the future of civilization, it is a flawed one. I see this attitude in tech a lot and I think it is incorrect, and very harmful. Systems have emergent properties that only exist at certain scales. The best principles for an FTL civilization spanning the universe are not the best principles for present day, and an appeal to claims of first principles is blind to this. The same logic applies to arguments over censorship of large social media companies citing counterpoints involving small, niche internet forms with a few dozen users. Or amazon scale superstores vs. a grocery chain. Or large nations comprising a mix of heterogeneous cultures vs. small, uniform island nations.