Modern life doesn't satisfy many of our primal urges.https://twitter.com/bombsfall/status/980713157386735616 …
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eg, if it's actually more effective and outcompeted other strats like how agriculture outcompeted hunter-gatherer
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or if it's basically arbitrary insofar as it's required to short-circuit moral systems (most prominently christianity and descendent universal rights system) organized around killing being bad
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not a lot of actual killing went on before war became mechanized, now you need to actually kill to wage war which means your soldiers have to actually shoot at the target and feel good about it
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this is uh, debatable. it depends whether you include incidental death (disease, starvation) as part of the death toll of war
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I guess in the context of how to get men to physically do killing this is valid. in general war has gotten maybe more violent but generally less deadly
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This seems right but I wonder if this is a function of who's doing the warring and with which weapons. I think Iraq/Iran was the last real one?
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I have no numbers handy though about how bad that actually was.
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(I should preface this is mostly speculative, not something I hold strongly [in fact I just thought of it now])
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There's a reason why half of the names tribes give themselves literally mean "people", as opposed to Outgroup, which are by definition not people.
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sure it's always been a thing but it wasn't universal and I just wonder whether alternative schemes faded because ineffectiveness or happenstance
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I can imagine the idea (present in classical antiquity, pre-christianization germanics) of self-actualization through glorious combat between moral equals being quite potent
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my guess is that the type of combat and its affordances shapes whether the attitudes
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my hope is those come back in the form of mechsuit battles
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Hugely endorse
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My guess is combination of universalizing ethics and the scale of industrial warfare. Modern military objectives are often better achieved by disregarding human life
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Oh, and much better propaganda infrastructure to enable it
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post-enlightenment maybe?
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Socialist rhetoric explicitly requires creating intrasocietal divisions to hang grievances on, and that's been a deliberate project for longer than the typical Enlightenment dates.
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