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[–] [email protected] 32 points 18 hours ago

No. Once bees are endangered, the resulting ecological collapse will have made the rule of law obsolete.

[–] AbouBenAdhem 12 points 19 hours ago

I have no idea how protection for endangered colony insects works, but it might make the most sense to just protect the hive and queen instead of every individual colony member.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

if you're at a point where they're stinging you you're probably doing something that would be considered illegal already

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

In the place I grew up in, that "illegal" thing would be going to a train station. Some beehive considered it theirs and would attack anyone going through.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

I remember being on one particular school trip as a kid, sitting down on a bench distracted, and a bee decided to go under my shirt and sting me in the back. I didn't even notice it until it stung me, so yeah, no, bees can be assholes too. Though that probably counts for the "probably" exception.

[–] somebodysomewhere 3 points 8 hours ago

Bee keepers get stung all the time

[–] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

When bees become an endangered species, would it be illegal if one were to sting you?

In this hypothetical system, bees would become akin to cops where it would be up to themselves to enforce rules, moral/ethics, and systems.

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[–] Rhynoplaz 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

oh yeah what are you gonna do release the cops or the bees or the cops with bees in their mouth and when they yell they shoot bees at you?

[–] Rhynoplaz 1 points 10 hours ago

Excellent...