[sfifs]

Wouldn't it me much more effective and efficient to have a mechanism to simply not pick leaders who choose war?

[christophilus]

History suggests we’ll have wars periodically, probably for as long as humans exist.

[iridjfndi38dd]

Progress is possible, it just requires retaining lessons from the past, and education

Without those, yes, we remain unevolved and the argument — we are powerful apes is indeed valid

Price of Peace 1945 (Beveridge) https://ia601505.us.archive.org/17/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.2...

And Price of Peace 2020 (Carter) https://www.amazon.com/Price-Peace-Democracy-Maynard-Keynes/...

Should be required reading

[jurgenburgen]

Seems to be really fucking difficult if the previous US election is any indication. May as well build all our infrastructure underground.

[adrianN]

Most people on the planet did not pick Trump or Putin or any of the other leaders who recently chose to start a war.

[voidfunc]

Sure but thats really fucking hard tho.