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RatifyGuy1776 wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by BulletDog15 in What is anarchy? by BulletDog15

The wars are not any less brutal. They are arguably more brutal. The difference is that the brutality happens far from American eyes, so the voice that wants it to stop can be made quiet.

More to the point, I don't actually care how brutal they are. It's war. It's like that. People are like that. They're also better. The cycle of boom and bust, of war and peace, is natural and likely immutable. What I care about is that war is now waged by belligerents who each have the power to unilaterally scour the biosphere, and we only continue to live for as long as all of them remain devoted to this inherently unstable and thoroughly disgusting practice of extracting the wealth from their own people by waging no-win proxy wars.

One day, a "world leader" will get struck by the good idea fairy, and life on earth will be reduced, at best, to something like tardigrades for at least several millennia. I'd rather have the smaller conflicts. Nations have to go.

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