Veterans also make it easier to get wider political support for legalizing the treatment.

Though notably never anything really crazy like “let’s stop doing war”

I mean, that does sound pretty crazy. Specific wars are often ill-advised or largely pointless, but "stop doing war" presupposes that all other countries in the world will also "stop doing war", otherwise what you're suggesting is just unilateral surrender under the guise of stopping war.

You're strawmanning I think.

My interpretation of the parent comment is: Americans should stop aggressing other countries, slaughtering the population, and then publishing scientific breakthroughs on treating ptsd among the killers.

I'd say the comment says nothing about wars of survival, which is not what veterans have ptsd for. No one is 'doing war' at America.

Game theory and history say otherwise. If you want to be a fool, have at it. Just don't expect the rest of us to go along or respect you because of it.

Just because it used to happen doesn't mean it should continue. It will be death of all of us collectively.

But didn’t you know: game theory!!!!

Nash equilibrium is the religion for millennials who didn’t get sucked into the boomer/gen-x Ayn Rand bullshit

God... Ayn Rand sucks so hard.

States are not rational actors. Game theory does not apply to them.

Hey if that’s the world you wanna live in then continue to do what you’re doing

Stopping doing wars doesn't mean not having a military capable of wars. It means not starting them. The US hasn't been involved in justified military action since the 40s.

> presupposes that all other countries in the world will also "stop doing war"

No it doesn't. But making efforts to stop it ourselves is necessary to achieve that. Same reason it's worth doing nuclear disarmament: because not disarming guarantees nuclear war eventually.