That is the beauty of mankind. There is always hope and there are those who want to effect change. I also believe that adversity is what drives humanity to advancement. As energy and water become scarcer, people will find a way of adapting. Unfortunately, no advancement is made without sacrifice..
It is not your sentiment I disagree with, just the idealism because idealism ignores the harsh reality of who we are as a species.
Do you think it's possible we, as a species, are changing? That's part of my argument (see the "we're evolving" link in my original post), but I also agree it requires quite a bit of idealism to go along with. If it is happening, however, war could be a thing of the past which would explain Steven Pinker's evidence that the last 100 years has seen the lowest per-capita violent death than in all of human history (even including WWI and WWII!)
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Some people are changing as they embrace tech. Sadly there will always be that portion that will resist change. as for why there is less war. Is it not perhaps the fear of a fiery atomic death?
I believe that we will eventually stop fighting over cultural differences, but other struggles will rise up. We are already seeing the resistance against things like VR, AI and Bio-augmentation...
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Fiery atomic death definitely plays an important role. For the first time ever, the sociopaths who send other people's sons and daughters to die might actually die themselves. That gives them pause.
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So true.
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