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How long will humans being killing each other with cylinders of stored energy?
by mensetmanusman 3y ago
How long will humans being killing each other with cylinders of stored energy?
- greesil 3y agoUntil we develop a better way to kill each other
- infotainment 3y agoI am ready for the era of the killer stored energy rhombus
- rokkitmensch 3y agokill my descendants with tesseracts!
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- kstenerud 3y agoUntil we evolve past the need to solve conflicts with violence. So 100,000 generations of positive evolutionary pressure (which won't happen), or artificial tweaking of DNA (forced upon every human at the same time - which also won't happen). The alternative is strong military posturing in order to deter opportunists from trying their luck attacking you.
- wolverine876 3y agoThe alternative is political structures that prevent violence and resolve political problems otherwise. Warfare is politics - it's when someone says, 'I must get what I want and talking can't achieve it'. We need political structures that provide solutions through talking, which is the/an origin of courts, democracy, a rules-based international order.
- kstenerud 3y agoWhich works great when you're willing to back that up by force (1945-2010ish). But once you stop, you're regarded as weak enough to challenge.
- wolverine876 3y agoYou still want to focus on force, but most people want other outlets for their political needs. It's when those outlets are unavailable that they resort to force. For example, Massachusetts isn't attacking New York any time soon, nor is the US invading Canada or France invading Germany. That has nothing to do with force. People love to embrace violence these days. It's edgy to be cold, but it's actually very important to understand how humanity actually functions, and how our exceptionally peaceful world has been built.
- shiroiuma 3y agoUntil humans are either all dead, or no longer human (e.g., they've been genetically engineered to have no capacity for violence, or perhaps be part of a hive-mind like ants).
- shapenamer 3y agoYa if only we could be peaceful like ants!
- shiroiuma 3y agoI'm not aware of ants ever having conflicts within their own colonies. With other insects (namely termites), sure, but that's not the problem here. Unlike ants, humans have no natural enemies, and are unlikely to unless some aliens attack, so humans don't have much need of violence for self-defense from outside, though I suppose you could make an argument that violent weapons can be useful for dealing with asteroid threats. (But even here, it probably makes a lot more sense to use engines to slowly push asteroids into safer orbits than to use bombs.)
- gpderetta 3y agoAnts fight deadly wars woth ants of other colonies, even of the same species. So very similar to humans.
- snakeyjake 3y ago>I'm not aware of ants ever having conflicts within their own colonies. If most humans were mindless drones easily controllable by pheromones or physical gesturing, there would be no inter-tribe conflicts either. Also, it is highly likely that humans do have natural enemies. There is compelling evidence that human beings are evolutionarily predisposed to recognize snakes extremely quickly, faster than almost any other object, and electrically speaking faster than our conscious perception of them due to the immense threat they once posed (and still pose) to humans.
- deterministic 3y agoViolence or the believable threat of violence is unfortunately the only way to resolve a conflict between A and B when there is no third party C that can enforce a decision between A and B. For example, national laws only work when backed by a credible threat of violence. Arresting people and forcing them to live in a prison or getting executed for breaking a law is an act of violence carried out by all governments.