• Why War is Killing Less of Us Than Ever
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[QUOTE=Explosions;46192826]Well to be fair, it's a far cry from ancient warfare, where your entire country would be slaughtered or enslaved if you lost, or even WWII, where you might suffer a similar fate.[/QUOTE] There were far less people an smaller societies in ancient times, the relations are not comparable this way.
[QUOTE=ThePanther;46197013]The background music sounded a bit like the MGS theme. I wonder...[/QUOTE] Gives me a Magicka feel.
It's always strange when people say "Americans are tired of war" Tired of war? You'd be tired of war when you see the guy right next to you blown up by an IED Sitting safe in your house thousands of miles away from military conflict doesn't really allow you to be "tired of war" tbh [editline]10th October 2014[/editline] Not that war is a good thing, but some people act like they have it worse than soldiers because of taxes and privacy concerns...
[QUOTE=BananaFoam;46195968]The thing that saves us from wiping out a quarter of a world population is the fact that things like medicine, surgery, shelters and engineering, and wartime safety procedures have advanced just as fast to combat them. That, and because of numerous advances there are more people than ever, so killing them all, even with modern weapons, is rather hard. It isn't that war itself has improved at all; it is that all other things have.[/QUOTE] Can you just relate these last three sentences for me? You literally just disproved your own argument right here.
[QUOTE=jason3232;46191445]I love this guy's videos[/QUOTE] This is a team of five guys, though.
So what about the excess population?
[QUOTE=Pantz Master;46199777]Can you just relate these last three sentences for me? You literally just disproved your own argument right here.[/QUOTE] I'm saying that the only reason war is less destructive is for two reasons; the world around it has steadily advanced to keep people alive -whether through war or otherwise- and populations are so large that it is difficult to destroy as substantial an amount. You stated "... we're also improving in that aspect of war, limiting collateral damage." but that isn't true. Collateral damage is worse than ever because our weapons are bigger, more destructive, and more indiscriminate than ever. I am saying that the rest of the world has grown so large and our means of keeping people alive have also expanded, so we are outgrowing war. But that is the problem; war is still unbelievably destructive, there is just way more to destroy than ever before.
I find it pretty interesting how collectively the media/everyone turns a blind eye to how many people actually die in Mexico.
These video's are really neat, any know other channels using this same format? (I know XboxAhoy does video's like thes too, but about weapons)
[QUOTE=Kite_shugo;46193063][img]http://img.gamefaqs.net/box/4/1/7/74417_back.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] fucking gamespy shutdown ;_;
[QUOTE=seano12;46200215]So what about the excess population?[/QUOTE] Famine and disease are the mass killers that show up when the population gets too high, not war.
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