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Re:Circle (Or Highlight or Scribble) to Search by byteware on Thursday January 18, 2024 @04:12AM (#39039655)
how is the "world is on its knees"? also didn't google target net-zero carbon by 2030? https://sustainability.google/operating-sustainably/ what do you want google to do about war?
Re:Circle (Or Highlight or Scribble) to Search by janet-catcus on Thursday January 18, 2024 @04:16AM (#39039678)
we need better communication to get OVER waging war...

we are all humans, we should not continue to wage war against each other for any reason.

Re:Circle (Or Highlight or Scribble) to Search by dotancohen on Thursday January 18, 2024 @05:37AM (#39040196)

  > we are all humans, we should not continue to wage war against each other for any reason
That is easy to say when you have everything you need. People whose grandfather's land was stolen have no other recourse than to wage war against the occupation.
Re:Circle (Or Highlight or Scribble) to Search by janet-catcus on Thursday January 18, 2024 @08:23AM (#39041368)
i dont think individual humans should own land
Re:Circle (Or Highlight or Scribble) to Search by dotancohen on Thursday January 18, 2024 @09:03AM (#39041759)
Even if they don't own it, should they not still fight for it? Is it not their right to murder the descendants of those who live on the land that their grandfathers once lived on?
Re:Circle (Or Highlight or Scribble) to Search by janet-catcus on Thursday January 18, 2024 @09:56AM (#39042409)
i do not think we should keep killing each other. no.
Re:Circle (Or Highlight or Scribble) to Search by dotancohen on Friday January 19, 2024 @05:25AM (#39053797)
Then present a better option.

Let us assume that I live in a country that your grandfather fled. Now you want to move to that country but the government will not give you citizenship. Nor did your grandfather not your father not yourself receive citizenship of the new country you are in, and you were even born in that new country (like your father before you).

What options do you have other than infiltrating my country and killing me?

Re:Circle (Or Highlight or Scribble) to Search by janet-catcus on Monday January 22, 2024 @05:45AM (#39088123)
hope there are people who want to change legislation so that you eventually do get your citizenship... but my actual hope is to get rid of nation states altogether.

we are this planet's children, so to speak. we shouldn't fight over what little we have but share it freely.

are you trying to persuade me into saying killing others is good actually?:

i will give you exactly one instance in which i think killing another human might be a tiny little bit justified:

that human is a predatory being and WILL hurt your children again.

you didnt do anything to prevent that human from hurting you again? shame on them. you didnt do anything after that human has hurt your children? SHAME ON YOU!

but nationality??: i dont care, we need to get rid of that anyways.

Re:Circle (Or Highlight or Scribble) to Search by Aerbil313 on Thursday January 18, 2024 @06:46AM (#39040620)
This is and always has been the sentiment of a subset of the people who are rich and dominant, out of touch with the realities of the world.
Re:Circle (Or Highlight or Scribble) to Search by janet-catcus on Thursday January 18, 2024 @08:21AM (#39041340)
so you are saying humans should wage MORE wars against each other?
Re:Circle (Or Highlight or Scribble) to Search by Aerbil313 on Thursday January 18, 2024 @10:05PM (#39051130)
Wars are never waged just to wage wars, they are a means to an end: territory expansion, access to resources, religious reasons, whatever. It’s nonsensical to say humans should wage more or less wars. I get wars are unpleasant and cause suffering. Shooting someone in self defense is unpleasant and causes suffering too. But sometimes it happens to be the right thing to do.
Re:Circle (Or Highlight or Scribble) to Search by janet-catcus on Friday January 19, 2024 @04:01AM (#39053244)
ok, you go killing your cousins in space then, i would prefer the earth to be a no-murder zone
Re:Circle (Or Highlight or Scribble) to Search by urbandw311er on Thursday January 18, 2024 @05:18AM (#39040067)
Well, on both of those points: (1) Net Zero is to be expected, not applauded. You mess up the planet as a side effect of becoming obscenely rich, then you put it right, sorry no star. If anything, we should be pushing for them to go well beyond Net Zero. (2) I think that's a fair question and a fair point. It might make for an interesting Hackathon though! What could Google do to alleviate the effects of war, or encourage peace? Who knows. But spending your time working out how to help people buy cool sunglasses isn't going to make much headway there.
Re:Circle (Or Highlight or Scribble) to Search by DiggyJohnson on Thursday January 18, 2024 @01:42PM (#39045830)
I know this sounds dismissive and cynical, but I mean it genuinely: a Google hackathon focused on the problem of war would do as much to solve that problem as releasing a new feature to make it easier to impulse buy sunglasses.