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Originally posted by Lingweenie
I have an idea on how to make wars much less devastating, and can save many lives, especially innocent lives. Instead of having an army of everyday citizens, that usually don't even know what it is their fighting for, this is what you should do:
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Thoughts?
Originally posted by Lingweenie
I have an idea on how to make wars much less devastating, and can save many lives, especially innocent lives. Instead of having an army of everyday citizens, that usually don't even know what it is their fighting for, this is what you should do:
Find the top ranking political officials from each country (especially the war-mongers, and pro-war folks) and throw them into a arena, and have them fight to the death.
Originally posted by OtherSideOfTheCoin
reply to post by Lingweenie
Just so I am clear according to your idea on how war should be fought if say America and Russia went to war that would mean we would put Obama and Putin into a ring and fight to the death?
As much as I would love to see that it has to be one of the most ridiculous idea’s ever if your thread wasn’t written with such a serious tone I would suspect you were joking.
Just no, not a good idea it wouldn’t work and it will never happen anyway.
Originally posted by Lingweenie
Capitalism is harmless, along with any other political system. But some people use political systems in the wrong ways.
Originally posted by ANOK
If the workers owned the means of production the wealth created by industry would be more evenly spread through the community, thus not giving one class the massive wealth inequality it takes to have authoritarian control over the politics and economy of the country.