You're both wrong, really. Scrimbul is wronger.

Splntrd

February 20, 2014 03:41PM

Registered: 16 years ago
Posts: 3,407

The "cause of all war" is not a settled issue academically. There are a variety of presentable theories attempting to describe the causes of some wars, and sevriis's answer is one of them. It's not demonstrably false - but it's also not demonstrably correct.

Your 'and probably' is where you totally lose me - I'm not sure when it started mattering if truth was offensive or not, and I'm not sure when you started caring if something was offensive or not, further I'm not sure when something being offensive began to register as something to be discouraged in your social projection, further further I'm not sure when or if you have or will ever hold yourself to any standard of acceptable offensiveness nor would you accept it if someone else held you to such a standard. All in all you're fucked in the head

Reply Quote

RSS

Subject	Author	Posted
Never be a fool	kostyan	February 20, 2014 07:57AM
And here I thought you were just a complex series of alias's, triggers, and macros rigged up by the Kremlin to show us what's what.	Jerrokrar	February 24, 2014 08:19PM
Kostyan robot with bear heart (n/t)	HairyOrangutan	February 25, 2014 05:23AM
Looks like things hopefully might calm down a bit. n/t	Death_Claw	February 21, 2014 04:49AM
Re: Never be a fool	Mallodor	February 20, 2014 05:03PM
The other side	PaulO	February 20, 2014 12:23PM
Short video on why	PaulO	February 20, 2014 12:36PM
Still don't see. Why do they charge ak-47 with only light plastic shields?	kostyan	February 20, 2014 08:14AM
Horrifying and incredibly stupid to do. (n/t)	tesline	February 20, 2014 09:14AM
War only solves one problem: What do you do with young men?	sevriis	February 20, 2014 08:09AM
The fundamental cause of war is a lack of, or a breakdown in, communication.	Scrimbul	February 20, 2014 12:58PM
Actually, the fundamental cause of war is communication.	Srev	February 24, 2014 06:25AM
Actually, the fundamental cause of war is daemons. (n/t)	Matrik	February 24, 2014 07:07AM
Actually, the fundamental cause of war is a quest for titans. (n/t)	Srev	February 24, 2014 07:10AM
Actually, the fundamental cause of war is forcing someone to remember bad experiences. (n/t)	Matrik	February 24, 2014 09:37AM
If you want to get autistic about it, the cause of all war is scarcity. (n/t)	sevriis	February 20, 2014 01:39PM
No, that much is demonstrably false, and probably offensive to someone to boot. Try again. (n/t)	Scrimbul	February 20, 2014 02:14PM
No, I think it's pretty true. If everyone had everything they wanted, then there's no real purpose to war.	vortexmagus	February 20, 2014 05:54PM
Those causes aren't mutually exclusive but then it's a chicken and egg type deal.	Scrimbul	February 21, 2014 02:21PM
long story short, I have no difficulty at all imagining a situation where scarcity creates war, regardless of the level of communication.	vortexmagus	February 21, 2014 06:10PM
This argument is unfair. Whether or not you can conceive of something does not validate its possibility. It just makes something (un)conceivable.	Srev	February 24, 2014 06:39AM
Right. Since it's impossible to satisfy everyone, scarcity exists - only a few people can be satisfied with any given outcome. So war exists.	vortexmagus	February 25, 2014 03:26AM
What if everyone was satisfied with what they have, but someone was born under sphere war?	Matrik	February 25, 2014 04:07AM
Sure you can.	Scrimbul	February 22, 2014 03:36PM
I view relationships as an exercise in scarcity	vortexmagus	February 23, 2014 02:17PM
I tend to find the latter is a dangerous line of thought: riches make being unhappy easier but only delay addressing problems head-on (n/t)	Scrimbul	February 23, 2014 06:37PM
How do you define unhappiness?	Srev	February 24, 2014 07:09AM
Same way he defines anything else. Writes a super long winded and ultimately useless essay on the matter. (n/t)	Matrik	February 24, 2014 09:50AM
Ok, I laughed. (n/t)	Nurok	February 24, 2014 10:05AM
I bet you pride yourself on being a total sociopath. (n/t)	sevriis	February 20, 2014 05:09PM
You're both wrong, really. Scrimbul is wronger.	Splntrd	February 20, 2014 03:41PM
Here's the deal.	Scrimbul	February 20, 2014 05:38PM
Maybe you shouldn't start your argument against my sentimental rhetoric by insulting me then.	sevriis	February 20, 2014 06:25PM
Lets change it a bit - young in your brain. You can be 40 years child. n/t	kostyan	February 20, 2014 08:12AM

Sorry, you do not have permission to post/reply in this forum.

Online Users

Guests: 137

Record Number of Users: 2 April 29, 2024

Record Number of Guests: 178 May 01, 2024

Moderators: Isildur, Gabe, The Forsaken