OH "The next American civil war will be fought inside Fortnite, so it won't be that bad."
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If we avoid an actual civil war, it may well be because most military age US males can't run a mile and then shoot an AR accurately. Or have drug or criminal problems that bar them from service. Plus, there's a new Netflix special on. This is fine.https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/19/pentagon-buildup-troop-recruiting-shortage-351365 …
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It's all great until the barbarian Huns show up. And then you've got to either pay them off, or find other barbarians to defend yourself with, and then it all falls apart when they realize there's nothing keeping them from just taking what they like.
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Also, what I think might be a bigger driver of pacifism in the West is an aging population. The young want to prove themselves, and the slightly older want to protect their young families. But the elderly? They just want a quiet life, and aren't going to risk that for anything.
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Put another way: pacifism as a social strategy is great....until you run into your first non-pacifist. The reality is that pacifism is a hypocritical philosophy: someone else always dies to defend it.
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That's the fundamental problem with libertarianism.
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Most libertarians I know own enough guns to arm an army platoon.
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Sure -- but when the barbarians Huns show up -- do the same libertarians come out in force like an actual army would?
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Many I know signed up eagerly after 9/11 and were bitter when we went into Iraq (and a few ended up voting for Obama and then Trump as a result). The last conflict to have been a legitimate threat to the homeland, pre-9/11, was WWII, so hard to judge.
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I can see that. One of my biggest regrets in life is never having served.
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