Comment by sfifs
4 months ago
Wouldn't it me much more effective and efficient to have a mechanism to simply not pick leaders who choose war?
4 months ago
Wouldn't it me much more effective and efficient to have a mechanism to simply not pick leaders who choose war?
History suggests we’ll have wars periodically, probably for as long as humans exist.
Progress is possible, it just requires retaining lessons from the past, and education
Without those, yes, we remain unevolved and the argument — we are powerful apes is indeed valid
Price of Peace 1945 (Beveridge) https://ia601505.us.archive.org/17/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.2...
And Price of Peace 2020 (Carter) https://www.amazon.com/Price-Peace-Democracy-Maynard-Keynes/...
Should be required reading
Seems to be really fucking difficult if the previous US election is any indication. May as well build all our infrastructure underground.
Most people on the planet did not pick Trump or Putin or any of the other leaders who recently chose to start a war.
Sure but thats really fucking hard tho.