Heh. If you think there’s any such thing as “non-violent competition”, you’re not seeing through some levels of abstraction. All resource allocation is violent or has the threat of violence behind it.
Poor competitors fail to reproduce, and that is the ultimate violence.
If the competition stops a person reproducing then sure it is a little violent. If it stops an idea reproducing, then I am not so sure I care about stopping all violence.
Poor competitors fail to reproduce, and that is the ultimate violence.
Failure to reproduce is not the ultimate violence. Killing someone and killing everyone vaguely related to them (including the bacteria that share a genetic code), destroying their culture and all its traces is far more violent.
If it stops an idea reproducing, then I am not so sure I care about stopping all violence.
Ideas have no agency. Agents competing for control/use of resources contain violence. I probably should back up a step and say “denial of goals is the ultimate violence”. If you have a different definition (preferably something more complete than “no hitting”), please share it.
Heh. If you think there’s any such thing as “non-violent competition”, you’re not seeing through some levels of abstraction. All resource allocation is violent or has the threat of violence behind it.
Poor competitors fail to reproduce, and that is the ultimate violence.
If the competition stops a person reproducing then sure it is a little violent. If it stops an idea reproducing, then I am not so sure I care about stopping all violence.
Failure to reproduce is not the ultimate violence. Killing someone and killing everyone vaguely related to them (including the bacteria that share a genetic code), destroying their culture and all its traces is far more violent.
Ideas have no agency. Agents competing for control/use of resources contain violence. I probably should back up a step and say “denial of goals is the ultimate violence”. If you have a different definition (preferably something more complete than “no hitting”), please share it.