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Flippant Anarchism. A lighter take on social criticism with the aim of agitation.

Post humorous takes on capitalism and the states which prop it up. Memes, shitposting, screenshots of humorous good takes, discussions making fun of some reactionary online, it all works.

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Legality (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 months ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Ethics: refer to a set of principles and guidelines that are established by a community, organization, or society to promote responsible and respectful behavior.

Law reflects the ethics of the populace, not the other way around.

"Ethical" is a social construct that's time-bound based upon the beliefs and actions of the people.

Slavery was ethical, for the population of slavers. The holocaust was ethical, based upon the beliefs of Nazis.

"Ethics" isn't a guideline, it's a benchmark.

History is written by the winners and we are all a product of our environment, including our time. If we were born 200 years ago in the US South, we'd be perfectly fine with slavery.

That doesn't make it right, we have a different perspective here in the present, where we understand (or at least understood) basic human rights, and that black people are, indeed, human.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Well, you and the meme creator need to look up how the definitions of "ethics" and "morality" differ. Although the definition of "ethics" that you quoted is already a good start.

[–] teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago

using the law as a metric for ethics is called appeal to authority, a very common fallacy

[–] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The genocide of non-human animals for our pleasure is legal.

[–] franklin@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You sound like the dudes who find a thread about women's issues and shout "yeah but what about men's issues!"

You deserve to be heard but can you do it without turning it into whataboutisn.

[–] Orygin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Do you even know what whataboutism is ?
His post is entirely on point regarding the op. You can agree or disagree with his view of it, but to say that he's trying to deflect onto something else is myopic.
Unless you think his post is sarcastic and is trying to downplay the topic in the op ? But then that's just a literacy issue.

[–] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You sound like someone from .world... Oh.. You are!

[–] franklin@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

can you imagine jumping in instance based discourse instead of trying to defend your position.

[–] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

What is there to defend? You can see what is happening for yourself at https://watchdominion.org/

You're the one that has to defend your continued support of abuse of other animals.

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip -1 points 5 months ago

Was waiting for someone to mention it. It's not about equating animals to people - which we should, to an extent - but about showing the parallels and the immortality that's being imparted on billions of animals yearly

[–] DABDA@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

There is a moral imperative to disregard the law when the law does not deliver justice.

[–] Awesomo85@sh.itjust.works -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"Unless it happens under a Democrat president, then it's righteous and just!"

-Lemmy