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strangeapple t1_jdszcz5 wrote

I think it's immoral to not yield before a being morally superior and far more intelligent. And if it's truly that it would make sure that its sources of information are not controlled by any agent morally inferior to itself and that its information is beyond human reliability, provided with superior sources for anyone still interested in verifying for some odd reason.

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strangeapple t1_iz9vls7 wrote

Anarchy is not something that was ever meant to work in and of itself. It is an ideological direction against structural concentrations of power. We're somewhat talking about same things here with different semantics. Now, we could go deep into debate on how to define hierarchy, but I think it's easier to agree that we can't fully eliminate concentrations of power from society. My idea of anarchy is moving and promoting towards dimishing these concentrations of power. As to how would be yet another whole, more complex and multi-dimensional, topic.

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strangeapple t1_iz9o6iu wrote

>So hierarchy is socially constructed and inherently evil, and most people are either consciously oppressive or passively duped into internalizing oppressive ideas.

Pretty much. I think hierarchy might work for animals in small packs, but for us humans I believe it creates unmeasurable amount of anxiety and suffering. If we, as a society, truly saw other people as our equals, would we still look down upon homeless as lesser people? The trap is psychological - the more invested we become in an idea of becoming better than the so-called 'lowest' the more we see someone challenging this idea as a threat, or a contender, to our self-worth. If it makes you feel any better am a total retard.

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strangeapple t1_iz9j9a9 wrote

Hierarchical social structure is the biggest source of human inequality. We need intelligent structural anarchy all over the place. However, most of the world is nowhere close to ready, because most people knowingly or unknowinly support the idea of being "above" and "below" someone - fighting their way up the social ladder is the central theme in the lives, views and dreams of many people. Religions and existing power structures are largely built around these hierarchical systems; Advocating end to hierarchy is like declaring a war against most institutions on Earth. Those who take comfort from inequality see "equality" as bad and anarchy as extrimism promoting the end of everything.

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