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What if one community has money to spend on drones, While the other does not? What if both communities have enough money and value human life so they just send endless drones at each other smashing said drones into pieces until one community has enough money to spend on drones and one does not It could be about power, and from what I've seen, the people that come from that: don't like to not come from that complacency is a word that comes to mind

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Imagine people build super weapons and super defenses. With the push of a button you can kill 1000 people. With another you can defend the lives of 1000 people. As the arms race progresses the impact of the offense and defense tech grows. One day the weapons are strong enough to kill a billion people and defend a billion people.

One side runs out of defensive drones. How good is their negotiation position? They would have zero power.

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