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[–] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's not more of a political thing, therefore they would both be political. although I'm not convinced that a crop that's strictly nonviolent would even exist

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Exactly. If you use that criteria to categorize physical things (instead of human intentions/goals), then you'll find everything is political, and thus that classification would be totally useless.

Even numbers and mathematics would be political by that criteria... even regions of space we haven't visited would be. It's trivial to find a political frame from which to see anything, all you need is to have an opinion about how it has affected / can affect humanity. So that criteria makes it a pretty useless term.

Physical objects aren't any more "political" than they are "emotional". Are potatoes also emotional?

[–] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Potatoes are commonly described as a comfort food so I think it would be fair to describe them as emotional, although it would be a bit of an odd way to word it.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yea, also every form of food. Even mathematics can ellicit emotions. Everything can be emotional when you apply that same sort of odd logic.

When you apply human properties to things and want to see things under humanity's framework... then everything is human.. potatoes are human too then. This is just an odd antropo-centric way to describe objects, which doesn't make a lot of sense to me.