RE: Little Sara. Just why; humans? you're criminals.
October 25, 2017 at 10:26 am
(This post was last modified: October 25, 2017 at 10:31 am by WinterHold.)
(October 25, 2017 at 3:58 am)pocaracas Wrote: Isn't there a fertile crescent in the region? A wide expansive patch of land that can provide food for the whole Middle East?
And what do people do?
Fight over it, to keep their own tribe fed, while not caring one iota for anyone else... and they excuse that fighting with "my skywizard is the one real skywizard and your sis false, so you deserve to die". At least, that's how they recruit cannon fodder.
The true solution to poverty and war is education. But that will only happen when there is peace and when the rulers of those places desire true long-term peace.
That region has enough food for all of Asia, along with the Tigris and the Euphrates, and atop of that oil and gold, and lots of historical wonders. The crescent of Iraq and the Levant can support an empire that nobody sleeps hungry in; but humans keep reminding you that maybe they don't deserve such a fate due to their deeds.
I won't blame religion as the main cause; as you said at least that's what the excuse to enlist soldiers in fight. The figures behind the raiding, death and rape of wealth are believe in money and wealth only.
(October 25, 2017 at 4:03 am)Aoi Magi Wrote: Humanity has both good and bad sides, and you'll always find unexpected instances on both sides of that spectrum. Though personally, I am hopeful, we will slowly lean more and more towards the "good" side and knowledge and education spreads.
I highly doubt human advance towards a better future. It's always a "golden age" or a "peak" that civilizations reach; mostly after a great war of some sort (Roman expeditions; Ancient Egyptian campaigns, Muslim empire campaigns...etc), then a severe fall comes; and probably it will hurt so bad; nobody will ever rise after.
