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How does it compare to spending hundreds of billions to continuously prepare for war? Ethically speaking, of course!

• inglor_cz 4y ago
  Ethically speaking, Ukraine would now be toast (which means: occupied, enslaved, tortured and raped) if the Western powers didn't spend enough money on their war readiness. World peace requires unanimity. Absent that, there is nothing principially unethical to prepare for future wars. And that has to be done continuously, because technology evolves.
  • Animatronio 4y ago
    I wasn't referring to Ukraine at all. Let's not make this about current affairs please. Whenever there's a new billion dollar plane or ship or whatnot there's plenty of money for it. When someone requires half a mil for some procedure suddenly it's a big no-no.
    • sokoloff 4y ago
      You can’t cite war preparations as wasteful and then hand-wave away an argument that they’re being used to good effect right this minute. The problem isn’t that one person in total needs $500K; if that was it, we’d be done talking about it. The problem is that a lot of people need $500K and if some of those are spent on people with literally hours to live, then people who could enjoy years of benefit if treated are at risk of not being treated.
    • nradov 4y ago
      Having an inadequate military relative to our adversaries would be an existential threat to our entire society. Whereas the death of any single individual, while tragic, is ultimately of no consequence.