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Originally Posted by Osmium Steele
A certain Star Trek episode comes to mind, and remember, that series was written by WWII veterans who saw the horrors up close.
WWI was a relatively clean war. Static fronts, mainly warfighters dying in the millions, and just 20 years later WWII broke out.
With the above carnage you mentioned, there hasn't been another war on the continent for 70+ years and Germany has a phobia of being seen as too aggressive. Yet elsewhere, the American war machine has made war clean, precise, with minimal collateral damage and fighting flourishes in endless streams of violence.
War SHOULD be horrible. It should affect "those back home" in very real and visceral ways so as to minimize the tendency to wage it.
I think it was Robert E. Lee who said, "It is good that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
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A Taste of Armageddon? Good episode that, and I could see a future war being fought like that.
Truth be told, I'd rather that we never had war, but could our planets population growth survive such a thing? Perhaps, one could hope that in such a utopia we would be able to up reach up those living in poverty and reduce the rate of child birth and mortality into a rate which is sustainable for our food and water supplies.
Unfortunately I don't think we'll ever see the end of war, and while I can see the point you're making in that war should be so terrible that we dare not wage it, you just know that eventually someone somewhere would cross that line. Take nuclear weapons, we've managed seventy odd years without one being used, but the longer we go on, I think the more likely it becomes that someone somewhere is going to use one.
Time will tell.
