[adrianN]

Unfortunately the same technology can be used to attack people. The world would maybe be a safer place if weapons technology hadn't evolved from sticks and stones.

[beaker52]

Longer sticks, bigger stones, further arrows, thicker armour, pointier tips, faster horses, gatling bullets, heavier tanks, distant artillery and hypersonic missiles.

[vt85]

Ask American Natives about that

[Ancapistani]

It would be a safer place for the physically strong, perhaps.

It would be a far more dangerous place for a slender 18-year-old girl.

[adrianN]

I think most slender 18 year old girls rely on the protection offered by strong (or strongly armed) people regardless of far advanced weapons technology is.

[Ancapistani]

Most people rely on others for their own safety. That’s not the point that I’m trying to make here. Rather, I’m saying that weapons technology is the only thing that has freed the individual from being subject to the whims of those physically stronger than themselves.