It’s not a matter of mentality, it’s a matter of reality. Your reasoning is simply not tethered to the reality of the world.
Everybody wants a peaceful world filled with sunshine and rainbows, but we don’t live in that world. While you’re right that a lot of people don’t want to die, it’s also true that a lot of people simply have no problem killing others. People like you forget that the laws of nature apply to us as well. It only seems like it doesn’t because we cleverly figured out that if we monopolized violence, society becomes a lot easier to manage because there’s a greater power to enforce common standards. However, there’s no greater between countries. There’s no state of countries that a victim country can turn to for justice or help. They’re on their own, and the only way they can protect themselves is if they have the means to fight back.
You can talk about hypotheticals for eternity, it doesn’t mean anything. At the end of the day, there are dictators, there are violent people, there are extremist groups, there are warmongering societies. It would be nice if they didn’t exist, but they have always existed and they still exist now. We can’t address what could be, we can only address what is. If you’re a country in the world right now, it is your responsibility to protect your citizens from external threats because that’s why you exist as an entity. It is the duty of the state to use every means necessary to ensure the best for its citizens, including the use of violence as a means of defense and deterrence.
If the goal is to defend against and stop aggressors, there already exist several ways to achieve this without having to kill a single person.
When you find a way for Ukraine to defend and stop Russia’s ongoing invasion against them, then please tell me because you might just be the first person in history who has solved war.
It’s not a matter of mentality, it’s a matter of reality. Your reasoning is simply not tethered to the reality of the world.
Everybody wants a peaceful world filled with sunshine and rainbows, but we don’t live in that world. While you’re right that a lot of people don’t want to die, it’s also true that a lot of people simply have no problem killing others. People like you forget that the laws of nature apply to us as well. It only seems like it doesn’t because we cleverly figured out that if we monopolized violence, society becomes a lot easier to manage because there’s a greater power to enforce common standards. However, there’s no greater between countries. There’s no state of countries that a victim country can turn to for justice or help. They’re on their own, and the only way they can protect themselves is if they have the means to fight back.
You can talk about hypotheticals for eternity, it doesn’t mean anything. At the end of the day, there are dictators, there are violent people, there are extremist groups, there are warmongering societies. It would be nice if they didn’t exist, but they have always existed and they still exist now. We can’t address what could be, we can only address what is. If you’re a country in the world right now, it is your responsibility to protect your citizens from external threats because that’s why you exist as an entity. It is the duty of the state to use every means necessary to ensure the best for its citizens, including the use of violence as a means of defense and deterrence.
When you find a way for Ukraine to defend and stop Russia’s ongoing invasion against them, then please tell me because you might just be the first person in history who has solved war.