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This. Politicians start wars by playing callous political games, vying for power, trying to spread their world view, and trying to capture strategic regional outposts, while often handing off neocolonialist exploitation rights to industries favourable to the western hegemonic regimes. When those games backfire, wars begin. Let the politicians and their families be conscripted. The rest of us can and should choose not to. If enough people did this worldwide, war would cease. It’s unlikely, but sometimes choosing the moral option means taking a leap of faith.
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I appreciate the sentiment (truly), but something is missing. We are dependent on, and contribute to, enabling systems - whether we like it or not. Understanding how to mitigate the role of violence - while recognizing it is always a factor at play in our interconnected world - is difficult and complex... but we still owe to try. Simply ignoring our dependence on these systems isn't the moral high road: it's turning violence (which remains none the less) into our own, personal externality. FWIW, I think this misunderstanding is at the heart of the crypto community's frequently hypocritical stance on policy: we want stable power generation, cutting edge fabs, ubiquitous connectivity, license enforcement (open source is a legal, not tech, innovation), stable global trade, etc... while ignoring that all the geopolitical heavy lifting is being done by the "legacy" systems we pretend to have made obsolete.
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