But you have only a couple of choices when someone wrong shows up to kill you.
Give in and let them take you over, maybe they kill you
Put up a fight, possibly killing them, possibly killing you
The military is necessarily bad because humans are necessarily bad. If everyone could just train to defend themselves and agree not to use the military on it’s own citizens, it would be a closer to neutral
Humans are not necessarily bad. Working together in tough times is what made humans evolutionary wise superior and still does. It is power that makes humans bad. And more power even more so. Or how some English Lord put it:
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
you almost got it. Power does not corrupt. Power attracts narcissists and psychopaths. Those people have been corrupt before. There are hierarchies all over the place where people higher up have authoritative control over the people (or even other beings) below them and the vast majority of those do not abuse this power hierarchy. Those people that do are mentally ill. It is just the higher you look the more likely you’ll find a mentally deranged narcissist because those are the people that really are into that shit and thus exert the effort to get there. For everybody else it is not worth it.
We can’t seem to break free of those evolutionary ties that we have to out-compete each other. There are lots of great people, but we’re still at that tipping point where some bullshit makes one county chain-reaction genocide another country.
humans have fought wars for longer than our recorded history, you can’t blame it all on fools seeking concepts of power. hell, we were fighting back when we were still apes swinging from trees.
Killing people is wrong.
But you have only a couple of choices when someone wrong shows up to kill you.
Give in and let them take you over, maybe they kill you
Put up a fight, possibly killing them, possibly killing you
The military is necessarily bad because humans are necessarily bad. If everyone could just train to defend themselves and agree not to use the military on it’s own citizens, it would be a closer to neutral
Humans are not necessarily bad. Working together in tough times is what made humans evolutionary wise superior and still does. It is power that makes humans bad. And more power even more so. Or how some English Lord put it:
you almost got it. Power does not corrupt. Power attracts narcissists and psychopaths. Those people have been corrupt before. There are hierarchies all over the place where people higher up have authoritative control over the people (or even other beings) below them and the vast majority of those do not abuse this power hierarchy. Those people that do are mentally ill. It is just the higher you look the more likely you’ll find a mentally deranged narcissist because those are the people that really are into that shit and thus exert the effort to get there. For everybody else it is not worth it.
We can’t seem to break free of those evolutionary ties that we have to out-compete each other. There are lots of great people, but we’re still at that tipping point where some bullshit makes one county chain-reaction genocide another country.
humans have fought wars for longer than our recorded history, you can’t blame it all on fools seeking concepts of power. hell, we were fighting back when we were still apes swinging from trees.