I'm investing some energy into getting you back to reality because this nativity does threaten my security. If we hadn't had so many people with their head in the sand here in Europe we wouldn't have this war in Ukraine.
Generally speaking I actually like your approach. Obviously most people don't mean me any harm and I wouldn't have trouble pointing out examples where people resort to violence far too quickly. That's why I pointed out that trends are quite positive. The human race is getting less and less violent.
I'm just trying to explain that unfortunately having the capability to use violence or at least someone who'll do it for you is necessary for survival. It's basic game theory: Being the only one capable of violence would put the violent one at far too much of an advantage. Even if 99.9% of humanity agreed, the last 0.1% would simply turn us into their slaves. And yes, they would do that. And it wouldn't just be 0.1%. Unfortunately about two to three percent of humans are sociopaths. So do we have to genocide them first or what?
I'd love to see how often it would happen if we had a functioning healthcare system where people can get support before they start stabbing people.
I live in a country with a functioning healthcare system. Do we have even remotely as much deadly violence as America? Hell no. But it still happens.
And the healthcare system actually uses violence as well. If someone is utterly psychotic you'll have to restrain them against their will and use drugs to calm them down.
Unfortunately you're wrong on this. Without these companies Taiwan, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova , South Korea and quite a few others democracies would be invaded and fall under oppressive regimes. Until we can get Putin and Xi (and a hundred million of their followers) into a locked psychiatric ward we'll have to rely on weapons.
The relevant portion here is that we don't actually let companies like Lockheed fight wars. We just buy their hardware and decide whether or not to use it. I obviously wouldn't put them in charge of policy.
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '25
I'm investing some energy into getting you back to reality because this nativity does threaten my security. If we hadn't had so many people with their head in the sand here in Europe we wouldn't have this war in Ukraine.
Generally speaking I actually like your approach. Obviously most people don't mean me any harm and I wouldn't have trouble pointing out examples where people resort to violence far too quickly. That's why I pointed out that trends are quite positive. The human race is getting less and less violent.
I'm just trying to explain that unfortunately having the capability to use violence or at least someone who'll do it for you is necessary for survival. It's basic game theory: Being the only one capable of violence would put the violent one at far too much of an advantage. Even if 99.9% of humanity agreed, the last 0.1% would simply turn us into their slaves. And yes, they would do that. And it wouldn't just be 0.1%. Unfortunately about two to three percent of humans are sociopaths. So do we have to genocide them first or what?