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We don't really know what aliens would think, so you're anthropomorphizing. If the aliens were Klingons they might find it endearing. There's zero evidence that
by bdamm 2y ago
We don't really know what aliens would think, so you're anthropomorphizing. If the aliens were Klingons they might find it endearing. There's zero evidence that peace without weapons is possible.
- nuancebydefault 2y ago> There's zero evidence that peace without weapons is possible. I think a world without defenses would not exist. To me it is just a law of nature that defenses need to exist for life to be present. Attacks are part of nature. However in that comparison I would call the gigaton bomb a self destroying auto immune disease.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> I would call the gigaton bomb a self destroying auto immune disease We had Project Sundial levels of nuclear weapons on Earth during the Cold War. The only difference in consolidating it into a single weapon is fault tolerance.
- lostlogin 2y ago> There's zero evidence that peace without weapons is possible. How do you apply that? To countries? Cities? Schools? Homes? Individuals? It gets ugly fast.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoEssentially all of those are true already, mostly through the military and police, and mostly through Dead hand guarantees. If you destroy a city, shoot up a school, kill a family, or kill an individual, someone with weapons will likely come to retaliate even if your victim is dead
- rolph 2y agoit isnt the weapons, its the mentality that requires them. as long as children are trained to be highly, aggressively, competitive and benefit at the loosers expense, calling it sport, the mentality will continue.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoDefenselessness is a unstable solution. It only takes one person out of 7 billion to defect. You would have to simultaneously train every child to be a pacifist, and do it with 100% success rate