We need to talk about Pluribus/The Hive/The Others/The World/Whatever you want to call them and their weaksauce conviction to not committing violence or killing any living thing.
Is intentional abandonment or negligence not considered violence?
Emotional violence? Because it's certainly abuse. It is still causing hurt and harm. They let all the animals that are in captivity go but they don't ever look after any of the domesticated-from-birth living conscious creatures that could not ever survive on their own. There was the dog that didn't want to leave his owner when in the sleeping center. They said they were looking after him because he won't leave of his own accord. But when they move on - when they abandon the towns, do they take the animals they say they look after with them or do they only say they look after them to keep the ruse up for Carol? We know they can't outright lie - but they can lie by omission. They can twist truth and false according to what is their agenda - which is the biological imperative of getting every human being to Join them and assimilate them into their culture, their way of being, their - for lack of a better word - community, even though 'they' themselves don't really value any of that philosophy. They just do according to what their collective consciousness and fused physiology compels them to do.
So it begs the question? Are they allowed to cause pain and damage by omission too? Essentially that is what wilful negligence is. Just letting someone or something fend for itself even though they know it can't. Even though they know it won't survive and will just die out eventually through starvation and incapability to protect and defend itself. That little goat that gets left behind by Kusimayu when she Joined will not be able to survive by itself because it's domesticated. It is dependent on the support of its caregivers - who don't care about it now because that is not a priority for them as a Hivemind. All the other animals and creatures. Sure, they're not captive anymore but how are they any better off that way when born and bred in their domestication? When the only thing it's ever known is to be kept and rely on the goodwill of its keepers to survive? To have quality of life?
That's really the take-away with this whole debate on whether The Hive (or whatever you want to call them), the new species, are really better for the world or even for nature. They don't have any sense of personal empathy or integrity or even any individual necessity with which to protect and defend anyone or anything that's not of them. That's not Joined with them. It's all really just a performance put on for those that aren't Joined with them as of that moment. There's nothing about them that's unique or can give out/take in newness. They might be conscious people but they're not human. They're not even animalistic. They're more like cells in a physical body that have no differentiation from the whole and therefore no need to deviate. That's exactly what happened to Kusimayu when she Joined them. When Zosia said that she's happier than she's ever been it's because she's detached from everything that makes her a unique or original being. An ego. A self. Of course she'd be happier than she's ever been. She no longer needs to understand why she can or should be. She has no personhood or autonomy anymore. She's now just a body that's subservient to the whole by proxy. She's not acting for herself and she leaves that poor little goat that loves her and depends on her because she no longer understands why looking after it is important.
That's devastating when you look at the bigger picture of what that would mean. If everybody is no longer an "I", "Other" means nothing. Becoming as of one consciousness or entity like that does not erase all the problems in the world or puts anything right in it. It erases the mental and the emotional capacity and necessity to understand and act for or against it. The Hivemind are not saving the world or nature (they're one and the same as far as I'm concerned). They're not ever acting in the cause of the greater good for or for the betterment of it.
They're occupying it as their own and remaking it anew in their image of what they believe it should be and all conscious living things must be in accordance and agreement with that change whether they are themselves or not. So it is exactly what I said.
Forced occupation and assimilation. The force doesn't seem like force at the moment because they have to perform according to what their human counterparts expect of them as they have told them is in their nature otherwise they have no chance of winning.
They can't complete this biological imperative if they don't act the part of the non-violent and non-hostile beings they claim they are.
But they're not individual beings or people or consciousnesses anymore the way they were before because they don't have any agency or self-awareness. They are part of a unit and it's not in a communism/socialism way. It's in a creepy chemically infused way where they don't understand why doing anything will ever matter because they're no longer themselves to be able to understand it.
It can't be a collaborative process how they function when they don't even understand why they need to collaborate on it in the first place and furthermore don't care what it does to all living beings around them just to give up on it whenever they believe it no longer serves their agenda. Whether it harms or hurts it. Whether it makes them incapacitated and threatens their life to be just abandoned like that because they believe it's for the betterment of the Universe to do it.
They believe it but they don't understand it. Like organized religion. Blind faith in a supposed superiority that promises eternal salvation.
You don't need to understand. You shouldn't need to ask questions.
You don't ever challenge the status quo because you're not ever you and that's what happens when you assimilate into a culture you are forced to just accept is the norm because it can't ever be combated.
Imagine if they could not turn Kusimayu. Would they leave her too?
