[heavenlyblue]

>> pointless massacre

You’re implying as if wars happen because people are all angry and if they just happened to be kinder then all of that would be resolved immediately.

It’s discounting a bunch of pragmatic reasons a lot of which have nothing to do with philosophy or human condition.

[ivalm]

Not immediately, but life was worse for basically all participants (at least the major powers that precipitated wwi)