Wouldn't it me much more effective and efficient to have a mechanism to simply not pick leaders who choose war?

History suggests we’ll have wars periodically, probably for as long as humans exist.

	▲	iridjfndi38dd an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Progress is possible, it just requires retaining lessons from the past, and education Without those, yes, we remain unevolved and the argument — we are powerful apes is indeed valid Price of Peace 1945 (Beveridge) https://ia601505.us.archive.org/17/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.2... And Price of Peace 2020 (Carter) https://www.amazon.com/Price-Peace-Democracy-Maynard-Keynes/... Should be required reading

adrianN 36 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Most people on the planet did not pick Trump or Putin or any of the other leaders who recently chose to start a war.

voidfunc 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sure but thats really fucking hard tho.