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  • That’s exactly the kind of backwards thinking that keeps us stuck in this mess.

    You are missing the fact that most people don’t want to die. Including soldiers on either side of the war and that a large portion of them don’t want to put themselves on the frontlines. Many are pressured into it. And don’t mistake the few rulers in power for the whole country.

    And yes, there are plethora of examples for non lethal military operations. What’s missing, is putting this onto a larger scale.

    Furthermore, you are assuming that going for non-lethal options is directly putting a side into a disadvantage. This is not necessarily the case and mustn’t be. 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. And there could be many many many more, if we would invest more resources into that kind of warfare instead of finding more clecer ways to be murderers and traumatize entire generations.





  • You do know that a lot of people don’t have the option to choose? There is only a limited availability of jobs and sometimes no suitable alternative.

    Also, given how it’s legal in the USA to actively suppress the formation of unions, which could make things maybe a tiny little bit better, your comment seems really ignorant of the realities a lot of people have to live in.



  • Zacryon@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonewar, war never rules
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    13 hours ago

    This is something that has to start before a war even begins. Investing way more resources into researching and developing non-lethal warfare. Knocking people out instead of killing them will achieve pretty much the same effect of stopping aggressions. I do see, that currently, Ukraine is stuck using the same tools of systematic murder that have been developed over millenia. So they don’t really have as much of a choice. However, others have, others can.




  • Zacryon@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonewar, war never rules
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    13 hours ago

    You focus too much on physical aggression to fight physical aggression.
    Ever heard of diplomacy? Of political, economic, industrial pressure? What about all the wars that were prevented due to clever people making some clever moves that did not involve murder on a systematic scale.

    Furthermore, we’ve spent an incredible amount of resources on perfectioning killing each other, and barely on exploring ways to wage war without killing.