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Technologists need to realize that arms races will doom our children. The solution is international agreements to not build horrifying weapons, not subscribing

Technologists need to realize that arms races will doom our children. The solution is international agreements to not build horrifying weapons, not subscribing to fear mongering that demands arms races.

RcouF1uZ4gsC 7y ago
Exactly. Which is why we never had WWII because everyone at the end of WWI realized this and signed treaties limiting their arms. Unfortunately, that is not what happened. The problem with this is that the more arms control we have, the more the benefits of one party cheating.
- acqq 7y ago
  WWII didn't happen "because one party was cheating." Everybody knew that Hitler was building the huge army. The West allowed him to do that for years because they believed it won't affect not them but only that "other" land that they didn't like.
- teslaberry 7y ago
  yea, what will really blow your mind is realizing that the most sophisticated actors, movers and shakers and their advisors understand this, and therefor use the naivete' and dumb willingness of the various 'publics' to push 'arms control' and other obviously stupid and foolish ideas in order to maximize the likelihood of war in general, and war to their benefit . they are in the elite, they don't suffer the same consequences of 'inter-state' warfare that the subjects and citizens of the states to do in general. so you see, instead of arguing down to the masses of 'educated' simpletons who lack or have not sufficiently used their critical thinking skills and study of history to come to those same conclusiions, it's incumbent upon you to ask yourself if you would rather take advantage of the situation, work for someone who does, or simply rather go with the flow and stop wasting time protesting to those who don't yet , or never will understand. frankly, i'm not sure the world would be that much better if the did. they don't make decisions. they are just spectators.

RcouF1uZ4gsC 7y ago

Exactly. Which is why we never had WWII because everyone at the end of WWI realized this and signed treaties limiting their arms. Unfortunately, that is not what happened. The problem with this is that the more arms control we have, the more the benefits of one party cheating.

acqq 7y ago
WWII didn't happen "because one party was cheating." Everybody knew that Hitler was building the huge army. The West allowed him to do that for years because they believed it won't affect not them but only that "other" land that they didn't like.
teslaberry 7y ago
yea, what will really blow your mind is realizing that the most sophisticated actors, movers and shakers and their advisors understand this, and therefor use the naivete' and dumb willingness of the various 'publics' to push 'arms control' and other obviously stupid and foolish ideas in order to maximize the likelihood of war in general, and war to their benefit . they are in the elite, they don't suffer the same consequences of 'inter-state' warfare that the subjects and citizens of the states to do in general. so you see, instead of arguing down to the masses of 'educated' simpletons who lack or have not sufficiently used their critical thinking skills and study of history to come to those same conclusiions, it's incumbent upon you to ask yourself if you would rather take advantage of the situation, work for someone who does, or simply rather go with the flow and stop wasting time protesting to those who don't yet , or never will understand. frankly, i'm not sure the world would be that much better if the did. they don't make decisions. they are just spectators.