Tag: war
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No wars as a possibility by IQ enhancement: Scientific advancement vs. social progress
Computational science or the Theory of relativity are difficult to grasp. But is far more difficult to stop poisoning billions of brown rats without any anesthesia or end shaming development for cancer cure (and it wouldn’t actually cost much). Or not waging wars. It was not the case that I wouldn’t have liked the kindergarten.…
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From ideals to the lethal reality: How the US soldiers are dying for nothing but interest of the few super-rich
A husband is departing to fight another war the United States of America has waged. A saddened wife is crying on the doorsteps. He is expecting his baby. But it has a purpose. We are the United States. The military service is deeply ingrained in his family. His grandfather served in WW2 (while having been…
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The War on Terror – because of 3000 we will kill a million
Basically every time the US wage war on something it has an ugly end. Around 3000 people were killed during 9/11. The US government misused this event for restricting civic freedoms and the military-industrial complex has got its chance. So, the US began waging wars. The Afghan crusade resulted in 200 thousand killings. The Iraqi…
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Preventable diseases vs. wars, mass shootings and terrorism
Given our prehistoric instincts, when a mass murder happens, it drives everyone’s attention. The Gaussian curve has deviations and one of the extremes of the extreme are people who go and shoot a lot of folks (tragic, but hardly preventable, and if preventable, then with high reasonable costs). Local wars (I really don’t mean a…
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Was Kissinger worse than Hitler? Was he given the power…
The worst people are not your common criminals but people with suits and ties. And those with the sole intent of grabbing power. And Henry Kissinger knew how to grab power. His only idea was realpolitik (a system of politics or principles based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations). No ideals, no morals,…
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People do things because of money or direct orders
Humans don’t do things basically because of morality but because of gaining scarce resources or being in a submissive relationship. So you have cruel correction officers, the Holocaust, genocides, armies ready to do whatever they are ordered to do. Evolution equipped us with selfishness, not caring (in terms of doing direct intervention) whether a fellow…
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Different nationalities, different races, different languages, different religions. Why not to kill each other?
Post-colonial Africa suffers from artificial borders that their occupiers made without regard to ethnicity, religion, or nationality. This really didn’t reduce all the violence. But genocides, wars and ethnic cleansing are not just African specialties. People speak different languages, are of different nationalities, different races, and their religions also differ. So why not to kill…