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Re:Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study by worldsayshi on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @11:26AM (#18293217)
> When you look at the magnitudes it's clear that overall the direction is overwhelmingly in the positive direction.

No, we are quickly and increasingly progressing towards depleting all our means for life on Earth. And our current response to that is massively inadequate. This nullifies all other progress.

> and in what other sense could military capabilities be bad

With more military power it becomes easier to oppress and harder to revolt against bad politics. Democracy relies in some part in the potential of people to revolt.

Re:Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study by jamesrcole on Thursday October 25, 2018 @10:20AM (#18301079)
> No, we are quickly and increasingly progressing towards depleting all our means for life on Earth. And our current response to that is massively inadequate. This nullifies all other progress.

All our means for life? That's hyperbole.

It's a serious problem, but it doesn't allow you to pretend that all that progress hasn't happened and hasn't made a difference to people's lives.

> With more military power it becomes easier to oppress and harder to revolt against bad politics. Democracy relies in some part in the potential of people to revolt.

It's unclear what you're referring to. Are you saying there has actually been greater oppression because of greater military power? That this has increased over time?