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how is the "world is on its knees"? also didn't google target net-zero carbon by 2030? https://sustainability.google/operating-sustainably/ what do you want google to do about war?

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Well, on both of those points: (1) Net Zero is to be expected, not applauded. You mess up the planet as a side effect of becoming obscenely rich, then you put it right, sorry no star. If anything, we should be pushing for them to go well beyond Net Zero. (2) I think that's a fair question and a fair point. It might make for an interesting Hackathon though! What could Google do to alleviate the effects of war, or encourage peace? Who knows. But spending your time working out how to help people buy cool sunglasses isn't going to make much headway there.

I know this sounds dismissive and cynical, but I mean it genuinely: a Google hackathon focused on the problem of war would do as much to solve that problem as releasing a new feature to make it easier to impulse buy sunglasses.

we need better communication to get OVER waging war...

we are all humans, we should not continue to wage war against each other for any reason.

  > we are all humans, we should not continue to wage war against each other for any reason

That is easy to say when you have everything you need. People whose grandfather's land was stolen have no other recourse than to wage war against the occupation.

i dont think individual humans should own land

Even if they don't own it, should they not still fight for it? Is it not their right to murder the descendants of those who live on the land that their grandfathers once lived on?

i do not think we should keep killing each other. no.

Then present a better option.

Let us assume that I live in a country that your grandfather fled. Now you want to move to that country but the government will not give you citizenship. Nor did your grandfather not your father not yourself receive citizenship of the new country you are in, and you were even born in that new country (like your father before you).

What options do you have other than infiltrating my country and killing me?

This is and always has been the sentiment of a subset of the people who are rich and dominant, out of touch with the realities of the world.

so you are saying humans should wage MORE wars against each other?

Wars are never waged just to wage wars, they are a means to an end: territory expansion, access to resources, religious reasons, whatever. It’s nonsensical to say humans should wage more or less wars. I get wars are unpleasant and cause suffering. Shooting someone in self defense is unpleasant and causes suffering too. But sometimes it happens to be the right thing to do.

ok, you go killing your cousins in space then, i would prefer the earth to be a no-murder zone

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