Re: These are major assumptions that make sense
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 6:48 pm
What an incredibly myopic view.Logik wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2019 8:34 amYes. War....surreptitious57 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2019 5:39 pm What if my moralistic framework says it is right and your moralistic framework says it is wrong ?
Do you have a methodology that will resolve such a dilemma to mutual satisfaction every time ?
...HYPOTHETICALLY: If China is contributing 80% of emissions to global warming and shows no intent of slowing down or concern for the existential threat this poses to all of mankind then going to war with China would be justifiable.
Why? Trolley problem.
Do nothing and go extinct.
Do something and lose the war, then go extinct.
Do something and win the war, then lower the risk of extinction.
The gamble is obvious.
How about we approach the solution without using rhetoric that has the word “war” in it?...
...especially a war that is almost guaranteed to end in an all-out nuclear exchange.
(I’m guessing that the climate change resulting from a “nuclear winter” would expunge the earth of way more lifeforms than that of the climate change brought-on by our carbon emissions.)
Don’t you think a more “logikal” gamble would be one where the entire world enters into a new “Manhattan Project” in an all-out effort to solve the energy crisis? - Maybe via cold fusion or something similar?
Perhaps when artificial intelligence soon reaches the so-called “technological singularity” it will help us to achieve that goal.
In the meantime, we need to realize that the Chinese people are not our enemies, for they have been helping to facilitate our lifestyle (clothing us/feeding us) for a long time now.
They are simply a vast enclave of our fellow humans (more than 4 times the population of the U.S.) who are doing the best they can to survive.
And lastly, any western society with a modicum of self-reflection would realize that we (especially America) are a greater threat to them than they are to us (of which your astonishingly cavalier attitude toward war so strongly suggests).
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