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Re:What If We Replace Guns and Bullets with Bows and Arrows? by progne on Friday November 10, 2023 @09:42AM (#38219420)
> Switching to low-tech weapons sounds unrealistic because it would require global cooperation

Imagine a version of game theory in which a defector gets a huge, overwhelming advantage, but everyone declines to defect because they just have so much integrity and a vision of a better world. Now imagine how different the universe would have to be for that to work.

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Re:What If We Replace Guns and Bullets with Bows and Arrows? by robertlagrant on Friday November 10, 2023 @09:45AM (#38219454)
It, like most utopias, mostly just requires unlimited and undeniable resources to obviate most reasons for competition.
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