North Korea has lots of old-school artillery pointed at South Korea’s biggest city. War is not an option, unless millions of SK citizens dying is also an option.
WTF, just negotiate with NK, the US already killed 20% of their males and destroyed most of their buildings and infrastructure in the 1950s.
WTF, just negotiate with NK, the US already killed 20% of their males and destroyed most of their buildings and infrastructure in the 1950s
The DPRK has come to the table multiple times asking for an official end to the Korean War in exchange for nuclear disarmament, offering to privatize and allow foreign investors into their economy in exchange for access to the world economy, and so forth.
The U.S has stonewalled them at every attempt.
As empires decline, mental exercises in pure psychopathy become a common pastime among the sexless worms of the comfortable middle class male population :theory-gary:
What belief in an afterlife does to a mf
For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
— Anatole France
This isn’t even justifiable under Christianity.
Like, Thou Shalt Not Kill is right there in God’s top ten of things He wants you not to do
Half of Christian history is justifying exceptions to that particular rule.
The Michael Scott approach
“Thou shalt not kill”
- Yes, but it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world if I were to kill someone
“Yes, it would be the worst thing in the world”
- Got it, only on the rarest of occasions shall I kill
I can’t fault people for looking to religion for comfort, but the belief in an afterlife is literally why life sucks on earth. People think that everything will be perfect after they die instead of accepting the fact that they may no longer exist
Belief in reincarnation is where its at. You know you’re coming back so you should do everything you can to make the world a better place to come back to.
But belief in reincarnation tied in with a belief in Karma leads to a justification for unjust hierarchies. “He was born into a rich family because he was good in his past life, he was born into a poor family because he was bad in a past life.” It’s like Determinism but only so much as it benefits people born into power.
Plenty of sects of American Christianity (most Evangelicals, I’d argue) would say that, after dying of a nuclear attack, 99% of those Koreans would immediately be roasting in hell because they were not born-again Christians.
Mildly but not really curious whether they would apply this logic to the actual Holocaust. I’d guess that most would do mental gymnastics about how North Korea is somehow worse though.
death to America
