It is trivial to retaliate in orbital disputes, and ASAT warfare produces long-lived hazard which cannot be cleaned up. Imagine two rival nuclear plants in nearby cities buying artillery and shelling each other, including with aerially deployed landmines.
Either you get along or you do not get to be a spacefaring civilization.
It is trivial to retaliate in orbital disputes, and ASAT warfare produces long-lived hazard which cannot be cleaned up. Imagine two rival nuclear plants in nearby cities buying artillery and shelling each other, including with aerially deployed landmines.
Either you get along or you do not get to be a spacefaring civilization.
Please don't commit acts of war. War is bad.
"Please don't hurt the bully in the playground, fighting is bad"
The bully isn't going to learn with this implicit encouragement.
Neither kid is an angel, but they both are smart enough not to risk an all-out fight with each other.