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No it is a good thing. When you have to be violent it is always better to have the edge. (quote from a special ops friend - in close quarters wins the one with

No it is a good thing. When you have to be violent it is always better to have the edge. (quote from a special ops friend - in close quarters wins the one with more ammunition) What you have problem is the ease with which US deploys stuff and not the fact that there are less corpses coming home. So change Washington. Not the drones.

fit2rule 13y ago
When violence is easy, "having to be violent" will be more and more common, until .. eventually .. you arrive at the point of view you espouse: war is okay, as long as its easy.
- harryh 13y ago
  Violence is less common now than it has ever been in all of human history. How can you square this fact with your statement about how "having to be violent" will be more common?
  - fit2rule 13y ago
    Education, plain and simple, has become more and more available to the masses - but I would submit to you that there is just as much violence going on in the world as there ever has been before - just that, we're shielded from most of it in our little Western happyboxes. You don't have to look far in the last decade to discover violent atrocities being enacted on our fellow humans .. you just have to be willing to look at the truth of the situation: violence is being used by those in power in order to stay in power. This is precisely the purpose of the American drone technology, along with every single weapon ever produced in the Western world. I put to you that the USA has become one of the most violent cultures in the world, precisely because technology has allowed ignorance and hatred to fill in where education has failed. Or, at the very least, where once we educate ourselves, we nevertheless submit to those who would use violence to maintain their power; certainly it seems that the USA is in the grips of the very groups that, were the American people better educated, would never succeed. It is the technology of death - and those who profit from it - who poison the well of human decency, who undermine all education in order to prosper from their heinous endeavours.
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fit2rule 13y ago

When violence is easy, "having to be violent" will be more and more common, until .. eventually .. you arrive at the point of view you espouse: war is okay, as long as its easy.

harryh 13y ago
Violence is less common now than it has ever been in all of human history. How can you square this fact with your statement about how "having to be violent" will be more common?
- fit2rule 13y ago
  Education, plain and simple, has become more and more available to the masses - but I would submit to you that there is just as much violence going on in the world as there ever has been before - just that, we're shielded from most of it in our little Western happyboxes. You don't have to look far in the last decade to discover violent atrocities being enacted on our fellow humans .. you just have to be willing to look at the truth of the situation: violence is being used by those in power in order to stay in power. This is precisely the purpose of the American drone technology, along with every single weapon ever produced in the Western world. I put to you that the USA has become one of the most violent cultures in the world, precisely because technology has allowed ignorance and hatred to fill in where education has failed. Or, at the very least, where once we educate ourselves, we nevertheless submit to those who would use violence to maintain their power; certainly it seems that the USA is in the grips of the very groups that, were the American people better educated, would never succeed. It is the technology of death - and those who profit from it - who poison the well of human decency, who undermine all education in order to prosper from their heinous endeavours.
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