• Smk@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    What’s the point of science or healthcare if your neighbors comes in and kill you all ?

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        1 year ago

        How ? That’s why the army or whatever it is that defend our values feels so important to most people.

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            1 year ago

            Well, that isn’t true, the US military by its existence defends the country due to its size. Nobody actually wants to pick a fight with their military power.

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      1 year ago

      You still need science to make the war machine go brrrrrrrrrr or someone else will out-war you. I don’t support wat but it does seem that some of humanity’s biggest tech breakthroughs have been dude effects of wanting to blow each other up better than the other guys