here before too long everything will be unmanned
Shadox, war would be much nicer if it was a sport. Because right now, it's a dirty business. We fight for political power and economic domination.
And the people in power dont care much about the people dying in combat. They dont care about the soldiers fighting, or the other soldiers they fight, or the civilians living in the area of operations, or the costs of the weapons used...
it's not important for them. There is the tax payer to pay for ammo, the patriots or the poor people forced to join the army for blood and suffering... etc etc...
Some said that were very advanced animals on this earth. We dont fear for our survival anymore. We are 7 billions, we even think that if we could scratch this number a little, it would be a good thing.
And we are labeled as "homo economicus"... The economy is the real priority. We dont give a damn about human life or human suffering, if the economy says it's good, then it's good.
War is good for the "economy", or at least, good for the economy of the powerful people. The tax payers have an economic power, but their economic power is in their ability to consume and buy useless crap... It means that if we kill a few of these tax payers, their capacity to buy will move from the dead ones to others who are alive... ANd even better, if they are scared, they buy more crap...
So war is wonderful from an economic point of view. People work more, buy more weapons (for the state to use), they dont moan too much about how the country is directed etc etc... advantages...
The soldier will be obsolete when the robots will be cheaper than soldiers...
I boot up my computer every day, I play online war games for fun. but if thats the future of real warfare then war will become a game, played by politicians who will have never even seen the enemy, or care, because now we fight a war where only the people who don't have a computer will die.
The only problem I have with the second one is PEACE DOES NOT ADVOCATE FREEDOM! Oppression still has plenty of room to exist.
Now the unknown threat to me is, we become so reliant on the machine, the freaking things have a massive crash and we are sent back to the stone age, that threat seems to be much more viable than any Terminator scenario.
Combat is a personal thing, probably one of the most personal of things. The guys on the ground need to be living breathing humans. Sure we can get help from machines to accomplish the missions, the final word needs to be humans. I think it's important for soldiers to see their handiwork. It's much easier to kill when looking through a screen, quite the opposite when you're on the ground and have to deal with the situation first hand. Veterans of wars carry physical and emotional scars with them that remind the rest of society about the horror that combat is. I think the elephant in that room needs to remain.
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