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  • A common misbelief about anarchism is that it opposes rules. It doesn’t oppose rules though, but rulers. Those who wish to make rules for others.

    If this were an anarchist world, which it should be, it would be perfectly fine to create rules for yourself and consensually with others.

    Therefore, if he, and the others supporting the death penalty for this crime, choose to apply that standard to themselves then they should face the death penalty. That doesn’t mean that punishment therefore applies to everybody else though.

    Your logic is fine, no slippery slope.

    On a less related note, here’s my favourite video debunking the efficacy of the death penalty: https://youtu.be/_DrsVhzbLzU







  • Zombie@feddit.uktopics@lemmy.world[OC] alley along the danube
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    Aye, which is why I said trees are better than no trees. I’m not advocating for ripping them out or anything ridiculous like that.

    Just that when people see pictures like this, because there’s trees, they think it’s nature. It’s good. And yes it’s better than nothing, and it supports some life, but it could be so much better.

    I don’t buy the argument that just because a city is old it should be absolved of its duty to nature. Poplar trees don’t get particularly old as trees go, all of these will have been planted sometime in the last 100 years. Future plantings should be sporadic, to mimic nature, but due to tradition and the normalisation of perfect rows most around the world still aren’t. People like their perfect neat rows, nature be damned.


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    So planted for human aesthetics.

    Don’t get me wrong, trees are better than no trees. But the normalisation of perfect rows causes great harm by making people think it’s good and natural and how it should be. It normalises a fascistic view of nature that it should be controlled and perfectly ordered.

    Nature is chaos. Nature needs chaos to properly thrive.





  • Unlike Reddit, Lemmy makes no attempt to spoon feed and algorithmically tailor to what it believes will garner the largest audience.

    You have to do a little curating here. Block users, communities, and even whole servers that you’re not interested in and suddenly the whole experience changes.

    I very very rarely block users or servers because I don’t want to put myself into an echo chamber, but I have a long list of communities blocked because I have no interest in them whatsoever. There could be anime girls posted every 10 seconds with thousands of upvotes for all I know, but I’ve blocked them because I don’t care. They can continue having fun in their community, I can be blissfully unaware of it. Win win.

    Make the threadiverse your own and it’s far more enjoyable than everything all at once.





  • The urge to leave began with the idea of cricket song. Dex couldn’t pinpoint where the affinity had come from. Maybe it’d been a movie they watched, or a museum exhibit. Some multimedia art show that sprinkled in nature sounds, perhaps. They’d never lived anywhere with cricket song, yet once they registered its absence in the City’s soundscape, it couldn’t be ignored. They noted it while they tended the Meadow Den Monastery’s rooftop garden, as was their vocation. It’d be nicer here if there were some crickets, they thought as they raked and weeded. Oh, there were plenty of bugs—butterflies and spiders and beetles galore, all happy little synanthropes whose ancestors had decided the City was preferable to the chaotic fields beyond its border walls. But none of these creatures chirped. None of them sang. They were city bugs and therefore, by Dex’s estimation, inadequate.

    This is from the first page of A Psalm For The Wild Built by Becky Chambers. Your post reminded me of it, you may enjoy reading it.