Maybe this Means Wars are Good
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Robot Wars
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First we assume that wars are bad.
Used to be that the reason wars were bad was that millions of people died when we fought wars.
Recently fewer and fewer people, in this case Americans, die when the US goes somewhere and fights. This is a result of all the modern technology and expensive equipment the United States can afford to have blown up and use to blow up others. Missiles, UAVs, lots of nice things that keep you at a distance from the people or equipment you're destroying.
Now say we have everything automated, the closest human person to where bullets are flying, or railguns or whatever, is halfway around the world. The sole objective is now to simply exhaust your enemy's supply of robotic thingys before they blow up all of yours.
No one dies. Maybe this means war is now okay.
Maybe we should just fight wars continuously until all the resources on the planet are expended into heat energy. Sounds like a nasty place to live though.
just a rant
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First we assume that wars are bad. Used to be that the reason wars were bad was that millions of people died when we fought wars. Recently fewer and fewer people, in this case Americans, die when the US goes somewhere and fights. This is a result of all the modern technology and expensive equipment the United States can afford to have blown up and use to blow up others. Missiles, UAVs, lots of nice things that keep you at a distance from the people or equipment you're destroying. Now say we have everything automated, the closest human person to where bullets are flying, or railguns or whatever, is halfway around the world. The sole objective is now to simply exhaust your enemy's supply of robotic thingys before they blow up all of yours. No one dies. Maybe this means war is now okay. Maybe we should just fight wars continuously until all the resources on the planet are expended into heat energy. Sounds like a nasty place to live though. just a rant