Using technology to improve lives is one thing, but using technology to survive missile attacks is just another level. Sometime I ask myself, will humans ever stop wars once and forever.
I don't think that would be stable. No war means losing the ability to fight which means eventually it'll be easy enough for just one small group to attack somebody much bigger but weaker.
If war is solved by all attacked countries surrendering immediately so one aggressor rules the world, I'm sure factions would emerge within it who are competing for power again.
Maybe a solution could come from some defensive technology permanently outperforming offensive technology? I think people would still find a way and the wars might be or begin by psychologically changing people's allegiances.
How about between Florida and New York? Or cities in red states vs their state government? It’s not zero anymore, especially when politicians challenging federal authority (eg Texas with border control) in obviously illegal ways.
We have numerous examples - Jan 6th, the Bundy standoffs, Oklahoma City, the Black Wall Street bombings - the risk isn’t zero.
That's because there's a common government that's more powerful than both of them and will stop any such war. But that common government still has to maintain its power with an army that can function.
Obviously civil wars happen all the time in places where there isn't a single powerful enough government to keep them suppressed.
Maybe you want one world government or a military alliance that includes every country and they all fight against any local wars no matter what. But what happens if some big enough group feels (or is) oppressed by that government and tries to fight it? Oppression by the majority forever is better than independence for anyone?
Seems to be just a few bad eggs that fuck it up for the rest of us. Everyone I know just wants to get along with their lives, deal with their own problems.
This is an overly broad and philosophical question. It's positioned far away. We could all get together for a cup of coffee and discuss this topic for ages.
A more grounded and practical question would be: why didn't Biden stop the war?
Now we're talking! One should expect lots of contradictory opinions, quite some hostility, a couple of MTG-like personalities with followers and of course this one specific comment downvoted to hell.
But see, that's exactly the point: opinions vastly differ on the same subject depending on whether the situation is a hypothetical one far away or a physical reality.
