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Re:Microsoft Wins $480M Army HoloLens Contract by mips_avatar on Thursday November 29, 2018 @11:52PM (#18566786)
There’s probably some debate we could be having about the Tao of action in general. And you’re right that the best intended use of force reverberates back in unintended ways. Your second paragraph sounds like a mix of concerns about Vietnam and Iraq, but it’s mostly just vague.
Re:Microsoft Wins $480M Army HoloLens Contract by lawrenceyan on Saturday December 01, 2018 @12:52AM (#18575457)
The second paragraph is somewhat directed at you, as you would be in this subset that believes violent conflict and warfare is inevitable, which you then used to argue in your comments that if it really is inevitable, you might as well aim to come out on top by contributing whatever you can.

Thus the resignation of fate, giving up, and falling into an endless cycle of destruction with which the second paragraph consists of. What parts do you find vague?

Re:Microsoft Wins $480M Army HoloLens Contract by mips_avatar on Saturday December 01, 2018 @10:18AM (#18577098)
I guess you’re right that I think that there are some people in some situations who you can’t talk out of violence. But being so generic and vague doesn’t help you understand the situation better. If you want to understand a situation you need to look at specific situations. Like I think by cycle of destruction you’re talking about something like how after the Iraq invasion a lot of Iraqi ex-soldiers had nothing to do and became a force for ISIS. That specific situation is a lot more of an interesting discussion to be had, and I think you can learn more from it than you can learn from a discussion about vague ideas.