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This comment is at negative 4, apparently a number of people don't agree that war is a waste.

The labor that went to make the ship was wasted, the pollution caused by manufacturing was a needless waste, the materials could have been used for another less wasteful purpose. And unless the ship is raised and recycled, it will just rust in oblivion on the bottom of the black sea.

How about we just don't.




You’ve miss-interpreted the reason for minuses.

The disagreement is with implying that both sides of war are equal.

While there are no saints, only one of them chose to start the waste (see also: Chechnya, Georgia)


I should have said dimensions instead of sides. I was not implying equality. But he loss of lives even to the production of war machines and their ultimate destruction is waste of the earth, of humanity and our collective time.

Even the effort spent on this conversation is a waste perpetrated by Putin, in no way should this statement be taken as an insult against you. That is not my intent. The waste of war is a cascading fractal.

Inexpensive autonomous weapons of war are here. The cost to kill for less than a $1 a soul is within everyone's reach.

The war in the Ukraine will have larger implications than WWI or the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.


Probably because it reads as blaming both sides, while one is fully responsible that the entire waste happened.

And Ukraine needed to be armed - otherwise scenes like in Bucha and Mariupol would be happening across entire Ukraine, followed by brutal occupation.

> How about we just don't.

That requires cooperation from all sides.


Furthermore, for each piece of equipment lost, resources will be allocated to replace it, and then some. And many other countries have decided to increase their military budgets as a result of this conflict.

> How about we just don't.

But how exactly do you propose we do that?


We could start by being nice to, and tolerant of, each other.

I am willing


I guess if you all promise to be nice, I can stop locking the doors to my house when I leave for work in the morning.

We'd also simplify all our web services to not require passwords, we'll just trust all the nice people to be who they say they are.


Those are all very good ides!




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