Is your country the one where Arold Scharzenegger is from?

Or Croodile Dunee?

if your enemy kills with surprise attacks on civilians, and you respond with surprise attacks on civilians meant to kill, then you and your enemy are the same, and so whomever wins, it makes no difference. no moral progress has been achieved

if your enemy kills with surprise attacks on civilians, and you respond with measured wisdom and forceful lawful action and political agitation, then you are morally superior to your enemy, and if you prevail in the court of public opinion and the resulting political will, then you have achieved moral progress

but killing war merchants and nuclear bomb scientists by surprise in civilian settings only makes you the moral equivalent of war merchants and nuclear bomb scientists

You do realize that by thinking the way you do you are only demonstrating that you are exactly like the people you hate, perhaps worse?

I thought something was stinking in Cupertino...

Several of you have helpfully provided info and links to educate me on what 'Eco-Anarchists' were about.

I truly thank all of you for your desire and willingness to 'give a helping hand' to another.
That's the main thing that attracted me to /. originally, and has kept me here.

*the other shoe drops*
Most of this info I was aware of.
I was merely, and only, pointing out the trend in labeling getting more oxymoronic lately. At least that's how I see it.

Kudos for an informative and potentially helpful comment, nicely worded, concise, and polite. :-)

Well, since you shined the light on it from that direction, my protest seems to appear smaller!

But I will still argue that the 'Eco-Anarchists' are imposing their own order on the system, thus decreasing the level of anarchy on the system.
Yeah, it's weak, but I'm hardheaded! :-)

Really, that's an interesting comment you made. Thanks...that kind of thing helps keep the mind open and flexible.

* For those about to reply to me with a WHOOOSH!, keep reading:

It does not matter if you were serious, sarcastic, or trying for humour, the end result is the same. :-)

Obviously, they slept/texted through biology class.
Harmony with nature? HAHAHAHAHA![1]
Kill or be killed. Survival of the fittest. Earthquakes. Floods. Hurricanes. Tornadoes. Tsunami. Competition among/against species for survival....etc.
Mankind has fought 'nature' for survival for eons.
Nature is not empathic, sympathetic, nor caring...it just IS.

BTW, would they consider auto-immune diseases, cancer, etc. to be anarchy by your own body?

They are ignorant nutjobs, the lot of them, IMO.

[1] I do think we have a responsibility to minimize negative impact and conserve our environment, but with intelligence and knowledge to make our world a better place for everyone.

I think therein lies the answer to your question.

Most people are comfortable with self-deception, in fact, they will embrace it tightly.
It helps them happily maintain their biased, prejudiced, and ignorant attitudes and beliefs....all the better to fit in with their preferred social groups.

This is how marketing works so well.....

If that was a rhetorical question posed as a set-up for expressing your dismay, ignore my comment. :-)

Is it just me that finds the 'label' Eco-Anarchist' to be as blatant of an oxymoron as 'politically correct', 'Patriot Act', and 'military intelligence'?

I guess 'weasel wording' is the new trend....:-(

Eco-Anarchist......Hmmm...anarchy to the ecosystem?!?!?...does not make sense in the context of their stated goals.

I disagree on several points with your comment.

The 1%, or 0.001% you mention....
IMHO, if that 1% turns out to be safer than the tens of thousands of fatalities every year due to human error we have now, your objections are silly. (not even taking into account all of the other non-fatal traffic accidents that snarl traffic, damage property, and cause injuries we currently experience)

And the comparison to operating an automobile to an airplane?....WOW, what are you smoking?

I would speculate that if getting a pilot license was as trivial as getting a drivers license, you would see a dramatic increase in deaths, crashes, and property damage across the board compared to current automobiles.

Remember: gravity is a stone cold killer bitch...if your engine dies, you can't pull over to the side of your flight path and wait for a tow-plane.

Don't get me wrong, I'm one of those that like to be fully in control of my own car. I avoided automatic transmissions until around 1997-8, because I did not want 'my car deciding for me when to shift'!