(March 3, 2018 at 1:59 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: About winning; humans said the same thing once upon a time in regards of slavery: everybody took slaves under the justification of "they are doing it; so why won't we?".I'm not sure where it is that you're drawing an equivalence here, but sure, some humans took slaves.
Quote:Eventually, the winners were those who fought against slavery.It seems like that, right....? Then the tiki torch brigade shows up right where you'd expect.
Quote:The same can be applied here. The conventional way of warfare that is quite apathetic when it comes to burning anybody in the line of fire, creates and manufactures terrorists and damaged people. There is nothing you can possibly say to excuse yourself from the intentional burning of Khalid's parents in an airstrike. That creates never ending grudge, and that creates never ending terrorism from both sides.Grudges and blood fueds predate civilization. They existed in tribal societies both in history and prehistory. It doesn't really matter how or why or with what you kill anyone's kid. Nobody is or ever has been giving out any mulligans on that one. Truth be told..you could kill our goats and get the same reaction. Add it to the list of shitty things about human conflict.
Quote:Eventually; the mistake is the mistake of the person who pressed the button, and the person who followed the person who pressed it, and the person who justified for the person who pressed the button, from the ranks of ISIS to the ranks of the U.S army.Yes yes, it all comes down to the great satan, thank you again, ayatollah.
Quote:The real sacrifice is in stopping the shooting, even if it meant one's own death. It's better to get unplugged from the simulation, than to draw so many to the same pit one has fallen in.That's what an intervention force is for. We get on a plane and travel to some place we couldn't give a shit less about....and try to stand between the people who are shooting and the people getting shot.
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It's a never ending cycle: WW2 didn't even complete the 100 years span; but blood is being spilled in scary ways and we're in a time that is considered to be "a time of peace". Everybody knows that a third round will happen, humanity even got an authentic doomsday clock right here:
I suppose that' s a poetic way to put it. I'd say that conflict is, to some extent, predictable. That the conditions which produce it have been present for some time, are still present..and in many places are worse than they've ever been. If we could change those conditions, the conflict can be avoided. Far from being a cycle that feeds upon itself into perpetuity, the presence of collateral damage in conflict is just one moment in a long chain of decisions not at all related to killing or warfare that could be interrupted at any point.
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