RE: Nuclear War must become obsolete OP/ED
March 23, 2018 at 3:45 pm
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2018 at 3:46 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(March 23, 2018 at 2:11 pm)Cathooloo Wrote: Nuclear war won't become obsolete until greater means of mass destruction make it so. War in general will not become obsolete unless and until we achieve a post-resource scarcity society and overcome human tribalism.
Eventual transhumanism both without and within via technology and education is the only potential hope for the future of humanity besides stopping reproduction, IMO.
And I'm pretty sure we'll make ourselves extinct long before that level. Although there are respected intellectuals like Steven Pinker who do hold the opinion that things are actually getting better rather than worse and less violent rather than more violent.
I don't believe it myself, I think he's just interpreting the results of statistics in particular ways that he likes to call "better". In some cases things have clearly improved (medicine is a lot better nowadays), but there's certainly not less violence in every way. Even if there's less violence proportionally, overall there's more just because there's more people, and the more violent people and the more the world blows up population wise the more likely the world will blow up for realsies.
