I think there’s a really great core to this post, but I don’t know what to do with it, or how to regard it.
For one, this problem seems to be largely inescapable, though of course we can work to reduce its perpetuation. Where, exactly, can I go to live on unstolen land? History is very long, and I don’t know when the first moment was that our ancestors could be said to have any sort of right to the land they lived on (especially where said ancestors’ descendants still exist and live there), which the other predators and megafauna they displaced did not have, or if that would even matter. For another, there is a difference between conquering the world by force, vs. conquering it by giving people new options they choose to take, even if those options involve tradeoffs or risks or are compelled by Moloch.
I think there’s a really great core to this post, but I don’t know what to do with it, or how to regard it.
For one, this problem seems to be largely inescapable, though of course we can work to reduce its perpetuation. Where, exactly, can I go to live on unstolen land? History is very long, and I don’t know when the first moment was that our ancestors could be said to have any sort of right to the land they lived on (especially where said ancestors’ descendants still exist and live there), which the other predators and megafauna they displaced did not have, or if that would even matter. For another, there is a difference between conquering the world by force, vs. conquering it by giving people new options they choose to take, even if those options involve tradeoffs or risks or are compelled by Moloch.