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[-] Draegur@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Huh, kinda like "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism", acknowledging that the only way to abstain from perpetuating it is to starve to death, but principled corpses--even MOUNTAINS of Principled Corpses--seldom result in changes of policy.

Quiet isolated suicide will not improve the world, especially if immoral and exploitative systems WANT (colloquially speaking) their opposition to die. Maybe don't play right into the hands of people who want us dead by giving them what they want, right? Better to survive and maybe also scavenge the resources needed to build something less destructive...

Quite. I think that's also why we're on the Fediverse, right? While so many of our tech is captured by corporates, we still have room to not accept it all laying down. That's what negotiation means, drawing your own boundaries, and as much as I hate saying it, picking your own battles, while realising not many will be willing or able to fight the same ones you do.

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