@cjd @Wolf480pl@niu.moe Actually big game hunting was probably precipitated by an ice age, then continued afterward because groups that stayed good at it were better able to kill other people as well, so anyone who went back to small game as soon as they could got killed or joined the groups (potentially involuntarily) who hunted big game.

@Wolf480pl@niu.moe @cjd Hmm, I guess that assertion obliterates anarcho-primitivism, doesn't it? If H. sapiens is defined by big game hunting and war, then there was never a time that didn't have organized violence.

Which is not to say we shouldn't abandon war, just that link between war and civilization doesn't go the direction anarcho-primitivists think it does. In fact, agriculture and civilization would have *reduced* violence.

@cjd @Wolf480pl@niu.moe Since human history shows a long term, steady decline in death by violence in concert with the growth of agriculture, industry, urbanization, and technology generally, I'd say anarcho-primitivism has it exactly backward.

@Wolf480pl@niu.moe @cjd In fact, it was *trade* that created for the first time any reason at all for humans not to kill, kidnap, or rape any stranger they came across, because any other group would simply be a competitor for resources.

@freakazoid @Wolf480pl @cjd Don't be part of the problem...

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript

@seven @freakazoid @Wolf480pl
If you're not part of the solution then you're part of the problem, sort of the leftist version of "either you are with us, or you're with the terrorists"

@cjd @freakazoid @Wolf480pl Jabascript, terrorism... 🤔​ One could argue that. ;)

@cjd @freakazoid @Wolf480pl But, alas I have to use it just like everyone else...

@cjd @freakazoid @Wolf480pl That is far away from, by choice however...

@seven @freakazoid @Wolf480pl
Well it's unfortunate that you have to use it and you don't like it, but I would argue that if it makes programming accessible to more people then it's a net win for society.