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Soundwave on 05 January 2017
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DrDoomz said:
Soundwave said:

I'm saying the realistic notion of Sharia law being something that's globally feasible even is somewhat laughable. Are you even allowed to take shit under Sharia law? It's a laughably untendable, unworkable philosophy, the Saudi rulers push it because they want to keep clerics on their side, you can't have them preaching to overthrow the main government now can you? 

Two countries that about "evenly" matched is not good, I just don't believe in human naure that much, sorry. We're idiots. Give us two sides that are somewhat evenly matched and the only thing that's going to happen is evenually we'll find a way to get into a fight. Cause we're morons. Honestly speaking most human beings are fucking stupid. The species is pushed forward largely by a few exceptional people popping up and working incredibly and the rest of civilization then benefits tremendously from that.

I don't see it the same way you do. The Saudis don't need to finance Islamic terrorism to keep the clerics happy.

I see humans differently as you. I see them being able to learn from their mistakes/history. Only the insane would annihilate themselves along with their enemies (kinda like what happens due to religious zealotry or North Korea). And right now we (the world) knows enough to not hold nuclear annihilation as a viabl option for settling fights that can be settled via economic/influential means.

Even in economics 101, we know monopolies are a bad thing. So how come you think it is ok in the geoplotical arena?

Do we really learn from our past mistakes? I'm not so sure. Partially because we aren't one monolith generation, people die, new people show up, new people don't give a fuck what happened 50-100 years ago. You have to have faith that each generation is successively smarter than past generations, and I'm not sure if that is realistically true. 

Nationalism is actually the most dangerous force we are just too stupid as a species, when there are two "superpowers" it always ends in some kind of conflict. Human history shows this to be virtually true ... every ... single ... time. 

If you have two friends that come over and every time they come over to your house they get drunk and then either get in a fight or end up trashing your house, at what point do you say "you know maybe this isn't a good idea". 

Unforutnately in human nature the concept of "you know I got enough power. I don't need any more" doesn't really work so great in actuality. Once 1 party tastes enough power, eventually the thinking becomes "well why the fuck does that other guy have more power than me? Something needs to be done" and then the predictable path to some kind of violent conforntation begins. 

We're just evolved apes. Don't forget that. Not only that, but I don't even think we're particularily far along in our evolutionary process, I'd liken the human species to like a child that's 12-13 years old ... they think they know the world and they certainly are more evolved than they were at 5 years old, but they're also extremely childish and stupid. 

To be honest in a military conflict, Islamic Exremist "forces" like ISIS if they had to actually match up one on one versus a *real* actual army would get their asses handed to them and blown clear off the planet in a weekend. They have no air force, no anti-aircraft, like 5 stolen tanks, like I said their overall numbers are smaller than the size of the Ethipoian army. Terrorism is a way for them to (as the name implies) create "terror" and make people think they are stronger than what they are.