[ThePadawan]

(Please allow this light-hearted deviation which might be considered in poor taste)

Or we could build giant dueling death robots who decide wars 1-on-1 instead of pointlessly wasting human lives like in classic Sci-Fi schlock Robot Jox [0]:

> Fifty years after a nuclear holocaust, mankind is decimated and the surviving nations—the American western-influenced Market and the Soviet-Russian-influenced Confederation—have agreed to outlaw traditional open war. In their place, disputes are settled with gladiator-style matches between giant robots operated by pilots called "robot jox" [...]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Jox

[daveevad]

Surely if we made it that far, it wouldn't even be necessary.

[ThePadawan]

I think the point of "humanity will always have a desire and/or find reasons to want to go to war with itself, and the only way we can at least slightly stop that is because it gets too expensive" is quite poignant.