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A much simpler solution is to just ensure that politicians' children (and politicians themselves on rotation, perhaps) are the very first to the front lines in
by cplusplusfellow 3y ago
A much simpler solution is to just ensure that politicians' children (and politicians themselves on rotation, perhaps) are the very first to the front lines in any given war they choose to conduct.
- jcranmer 3y agoWell, considering that the ages when this was expected of political leaders were also far more violent and had far more endemic warfare than modern times, maybe this actually isn't a good idea.
- red-iron-pine 3y agothe led the armies, but they also led the country. all of the risk and all of the reward.
- bell-cot 3y agoThese days...I'd put their leading financial backers (& children) on the front lines instead.
- adamredwoods 3y agoThey won't. That's the problem, politicians and dictators don't see war the same way as civilians do.
- some_random 3y agoHave you ever looked at how many American politicians are veterans? How many of them have children who are in the armed forces? It's certainly not universal, but they do have children who would be fighting their wars and they have fought in the last generation's wars.
- kube-system 3y agoI looked it up. 18% of congress is a veteran. 6.2% of the general population is.
- inglor_cz 3y agoIt is not that simple. For example, Hitler had no kids. And Stalin did, but he treated them indifferently and refused to save his son Yakov from German captivity. Netanyahu's brother Yoni died in the Entebbe raid, didn't seem to make Binyamin a pacifist.