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Humanity had its inherent problems well before any technology was invented.
by djeastm 1y ago
Humanity had its inherent problems well before any technology was invented.
- saulpw 1y agoYes but technology exacerbated them. The great wars of the 20th century killed 10s of millions of people, 10x more per year than any other conflict.
- teamonkey 1y agoMan-made climate change is also new experience for humanity.
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- bawolff 1y agoMaybe, but what about per capita? More people participating equals more people killed, but at the same time i dont think you need high technology to engage in a mass slaughter, swords work just as well.
- saulpw 1y agoA sword can kill one person at a time. A gun can kill 10 people at a time. A bomb can kill a hundred people. A nuclear bomb can kill thousands. You can certainly commit mass slaughter with less technology. But then you need either a) more people to do the slaughtering, or b) more time. Technology makes it possible for a few people to slaughter many people in very little time.
- WalterBright 1y agoEven ancient wars wiped out whole peoples. Like the Carthaginians.
- Eisenstein 1y agoWe could kill the same number of people today with a single conventional air strike.
- WalterBright 1y agoPercentage of population-wise, I presume we are killing far fewer people.
- Eisenstein 1y agoI don't presume that and I also don't see what difference it makes.