and yes, retaliation up to and including tactical mcnukes is justified

NAP is stupid, and ignores reality.

Its a good "Aspiration" but like Communism not rooted in basic human nature.

it also completely breaks down when you begin to think about whether you can respond to imminent threats of violence, and projecting that forward to implicitly likely future harm

because at that point many things could be considered aggression worthy of being responded to

It becomes even more broken down when you remove things like Government/Consolidation of powers

Because there is nothing "Bigger" there to enforce it.

nah dude the private military corps and international federation of independent courts is a great system

everyone will just agree to get along and totally not going to be loads of warlords and shit running around in a perpetual arms race

Sure it is...When that Private military becomes warlordism

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And that independant court gets bribed to kill you for your land

But aside from that

that wouldn't happen because.. reasons

Perfect system

"that would be too damaging to their reputation, and insurance companies wouldn't deal with them"

Kinda like "Communism would work if implimented right......and if there wasn't scarcity"

Or humans

Prolly more the latter

Humans are the problem

Comunisim works with hive minded organisims

hives are all typically comprised of direct genetic relatives, like a family

There are no true hive minds...

Technically speaking...Even among colony creatures they still have some independance.

`Many insect species, including ants and bees, work together in colonies, and their cooperative behavior determines the survival of the entire group. This type of interaction has been likened to that of a single organism, with each individual in a colony acting like a cell in the body, giving rise to the term "superorganism."`

Yes cooperative. But they are all individuals still and individually problem solve ect.

Their communication and goals are just clearer

Kinda helps that only queens and elates breed

individual maybe, but not unique individuals
all the workers in a hive are genetically very similar, probably almost identical

Less worry about propogation

Well unique by what metric? Biologically sure, cause they are spawned from the same genetic code repeatedly. However 2 ants for instance facing the same issue will come to different results on overcoming it. I get the meaning there and it's true you could liken it to a super organism. But not what I was getting at.

Hive mind is very particular to where all thoughts are one, and all controlled from one point. Ants while close, still break that mold, though slightly.

Anywho off to bed.

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`Hive mind is very particular to where all thoughts are one, and all controlled from one point. Ants while close, still break that mold, though slightly.`
yeah
i think it's more that they appear to act as one, because the genetic code is all so sameish they respond to the stimuli the same way

there's no command structure really standing over them making demands and such

in humans we can achieve a similar result either through reasoned application of some principle, or by an extremely complex hierarchy of command

https://twitter.com/lucyfrown/status/1127889100294512641

Ok that's aggression

That's destruction of muh property