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  • steltek@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    You were applying “a well armed society is a polite society” to geopolitics. I disagree. Weapons are what you fall back on after all the other options have failed. A “ballot box, jury box, ammo box” sort of deal.

    Education and tolerance are the tools of peace. If your leaders are extremists who can’t compromise, pointing fingers for who you should hate more, jump to labels and teams, and issue ultimatums rather than dialogue, then you are on a road to war.

    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      Weapons are what you fall back on after all the other options have failed.

      Again you may, others may not think this way. It takes only one side to start a war.

      Education and tolerance are the tools of peace.

      Because real education and real tolerance make you stronger in war.

      If your leaders are extremists who can’t compromise, pointing fingers for who you should hate more, jump to labels and teams, and issue ultimatums rather than dialogue, then you are on a road to war.

      You are also on a road to war indefinitely if this is how the neighboring society’s leaders are.