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[CoughDrop]

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -- Albert Einstein

[Taricus]

Doubt it, we wouldn't have the coherency to fight with them.

[Shambling Zombie]

I'm gonna have to agree with Einstein on this one, on account of his puffy hair and the picture of him sticking his tongue out.

[Max White]

Well, let's compair todays weapons of war to say, 700 years ago. These days you just drop a nice clean nuke on a city and BAM! It's over. Go back a while and the first weapon to qualify as a weapon of mass destruction was throwing plauge bodys over the wall to infect the people inside, for a slow painful death.

So war has always been a threat, but it is good to know that a shot to the head hurts less then being stabbed, so it is always getting less painful.

[CoughDrop]

So war has always been a threat, but it is good to know that a shot to the head hurts less then being stabbed, so it is always getting less painful.

Because all bullets shot always hit the head... Depending on the round used, a gun could easily cause much more pain than a stab (not to mention shattering bones, say, a kneecap). That war is becoming less painful isn't true at all; however a great deal fewer people die in war now than they did before.

[Tarran]

I'm neutral. Our governments and their laws are kinda... Ehh, and don't seem like they'll get better. Oil is bound to run out and when it does, we will have a lot of problems on our hands if we haven't changed our common fuel. we're overpopulating, and also using up all the resources of our small planet. Also, nukes, they're quite dangerous.

However, our technology is advancing and we're currently making advances to colonizing Mars and other bodies in our system, so that'll relieve some of the problems we've got for quite a while until we start leaving our system. So how good we'll be going in the future is likely related to how long it takes for us to leave Earth.

[Jackrabbit]

So war has always been a threat, but it is good to know that a shot to the head hurts less then being stabbed, so it is always getting less painful.

Because all bullets shot always hit the head... Depending on the round used, a gun could easily cause much more pain than a stab (not to mention shattering bones, say, a kneecap). That war is becoming less painful isn't true at all; however a great deal fewer people die in war now than they did before.

But less deaths is, I think, better than less pain. Also, there's less chance of horrendous pain, I think. Maybe.

Anyway, I am looking forward to the future because if I was looking back at it then it'd be the past. It's looking good, so far.

Vote for new topic, anyway.

[Sir Pseudonymous]

I'm neutral. Our governments and their laws are kinda... Ehh, and don't seem like they'll get better.

They used to be worse. As in, "make the corrupt, mediocre stagnation we have now look like the epitome of openness, responsibility, and progress" worse. This is all we know firsthand, and it doesn't seem good enough, but trust me. Everything that is bad now was much, much worse as little as twenty years ago.

[Shambling Zombie]

*waves a hand*

I Vote for next question.

Oh, and I'd rather be living now than any other time in history.

[scriver]

Come morning, and I feel a little better about everything. Mostly because of bob hund. bob hund always gets me up. If I could, I'd change my vote to the status quo one.

Also, Vote for topichange.

[Tarran]

Topic change for awesomeness.

[Tilla]

I'll get my two cents in briefly: I'm pretty damn pessimistic, mostly due to the corporate stranglehold on society. Things seem to be getting better occasionally, but then sometimes they seem to slip back another step. The most disgusting to me is the revolving door between government and private interests, such as those who leave White House or FDA positions for jobs at Monsanto, Bayer and the like, and vice versa as well. Those can have SERIOUS negative effects, such as colony-collapse disorder which is pointing more and more at a direct failure of the FDA to require proper testing of Neonictinoid pesticides in crops :/

[MetalSlimeHunt]

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[Taricus]

Currently yes, too many lobbyist and corporate media outlets combined with a lack of education surronding political topics means it's currently clusterf***.

[scriver]

Kind of vague statement, but no. It is no more random than any other kind of government. Though maybe the shuffles happens a bit more often, but in the large picture that's rather irrelevant.

Currently yes, too many lobbyist and corporate media outlets combined with a lack of education surronding political topics means it's currently clusterf***.

Are you saying this would not be the case otherwise? That lobbyists would not have success in, for example, an aristocratic monarchy?