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When you send your own people to war there is a cost to society and to ones conscious. Society can also challenge that cost and it may be enough to stop or prev
by rdlecler1 8y ago
When you send your own people to war there is a cost to society and to ones conscious. Society can also challenge that cost and it may be enough to stop or prevent an unjust war. What happens when we can wage war with impunity? When there no costs? As bad as war is, it may even be worse.
- nradov 8y agoThe monetary costs of war will still be huge even if humans are no longer on the battlefield. Modern weapons are extremely expensive already, and getting even more expensive with each new generation. An F-35A unit cost is $85M. A hypothetical AI controlled drone with similar capabilities would only be marginally cheaper.
- code_duck 8y agoThe environmental and human costs represented by that figure are overlooked. How much pollution was created to make that $85 million fighter jet? When a government of the future spends 500 billion to make a field full of robot trash fighting with another government, what are the externalities of that?
- arminiusreturns 8y agoRight, but when those who have corrupted the government for their purposes actually benefit from that equation, that cost is actually an encouragement, not a deterrent, towards war. Of course it at least offers a slightly easier antiwar political target, but we've seen how that has failed in the past.