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It's the year 2023, and the human race cannot simply just talk to fix issues. Incredible. To kill (or hurt) other human beings to protect "your" land or "your"
by danwee 3y ago
It's the year 2023, and the human race cannot simply just talk to fix issues. Incredible.
To kill (or hurt) other human beings to protect "your" land or "your" loved ones baffles me. Yes, I love my loved ones (wow) but that doesn't mean I'm willing to kill people who are 99.99999% similar to my loved ones just because the politicians that manage the countries we happen to live in decide so.
We think that because we can send probes the the outer space or because we can do calculus we are so intelligent. We are still just monkeys who get mad when other monkeys say/do something to us that we don't like.
- lamedukc 3y ago[flagged]
- q1w2 3y agoWar is often not the product of miscommunication. It is often the product of a mis-alignment of political/military power and resources. Russia saw Ukraine as militarily weak, but in control over strategic territory that it wanted to capture. It's a simple calculus - no amount of talking would have prevented this war.
- arp242 3y agoSo then what? Everyone should just shrug if a neighbouring country say "this is mine now, lol"? There are a lot of people on the world for whom that didn't really work out so well. In principle few people would of course disagree with this, but this is a naïve idealistic teenager take. The reality is that without an army that's willing to actually fight you will be taken advantage of sooner or later. Maybe at some point in the future when more of the world shared humanistic ideals that will be different, but that's not the situation today.
- CRConrad 3y ago“Every country has an army; either its own, or someone else's.”