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look, I know you've been taking a beating over this but for the possibility of a more interesting discussion, what if at least some of the anons here are trying to point to actual philosophical problems that came out of some experiments with anti-civ tactics and indigenous identity?

things like, for example, an appeal to a poorly defined and authoritarian "natural law" that gets referred to as "tradition" or "wild nature" or some other woo bullshit like that. when I've been around people trying to tackle things like land defence and sovereignty, there's real problems that crop up out of these ideas that are very tightly woven in to a lot of indigenous identity, long before the trajectory of struggle gets anywhere near the use of lethal violence to "defend the land" or "attack civilization" or whatever. Further more, these are problems of identity in general. EE is just a dramatic, recent example.

It could be interpreted as a warning about ANY identity and how toxic it can easily become, using it to rationalize things. Then again, some form of identity is pretty necessary to galvanize resistance movements and serious resistance will inevitably require some form of defensive violence at the very least so … yeah! fascinating stuff. unresolved problems. maybe more to think about?