Possibility strickler in me notices a claim of “It is impossible to deal with pests without resorting to violence”. While doing poisoning and outrigth killlings for pest control is rather easy ethic bar to clear I don’t see the inevitability of it. You could have things like plant surfaces being engireered to be repulsive to pests, you could do things like allowing pests to only grow outside of industiralised farming. For a lot of these options the effort extended would overshadow the gains in “ethical” operation.
For example in a very simple view of law enforcement the police just straight up murder bad guys. But for a more nuanced and complex system, use of force is more detailed and actual application of lethal force would be rarely the prescription. There is a important line between “policing involves use of legitimised state violence” vs “policing will always involve force”.
Possibility strickler in me notices a claim of “It is impossible to deal with pests without resorting to violence”. While doing poisoning and outrigth killlings for pest control is rather easy ethic bar to clear I don’t see the inevitability of it. You could have things like plant surfaces being engireered to be repulsive to pests, you could do things like allowing pests to only grow outside of industiralised farming. For a lot of these options the effort extended would overshadow the gains in “ethical” operation.
For example in a very simple view of law enforcement the police just straight up murder bad guys. But for a more nuanced and complex system, use of force is more detailed and actual application of lethal force would be rarely the prescription. There is a important line between “policing involves use of legitimised state violence” vs “policing will always involve force”.