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RE: A Thousand Paper Cranes - the Insanity of War and My Trip to Hiroshima (with my personal travel photos)
Wow. This was pretty moving, I'm glad you shared it. Even intellectually I find war repugnant and nonsensical. However, it's the inevitable result of centralized power (i.e. power in the hands of the few). As technology increases, power will be less and less centralized (we're already seeing it happen to some degree) and wars will, therefore, become less and less common, in theory.
Thanks. I hope that decentralisation does help but in some ways I fear that violence and aggression is to ingrained in our nature to get rid of war.
An understandable concern given human history. Still, technology has allowed you to bring empathy across the seas. Further innovations combined with the goodwill of people like yourself might just be enough to keep us from disaster. It has to. The world may not survive another world war, a fact your post makes clear.
Yes but I try to remain optimistic too:) I hope technology can make that change.