Post by @hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip

2026-09-29 20:08 UTC

No but love, compassion and an attempt to understand one another would work miracles for the human species. Most of our suffering is preventable. Killing and warfare has never lead to the cessation of killing and warfare, and it never will. If Russia’s entire civilian population refuses peacefully to comply with Putin, there’s really not much he can do. When society’s wheels come to a halt, the oligarchs lose their power. If we can’t be better than chimps, then we deserve to die off as a species. We’re no better than a scourge upon the planet if we don’t make an effort to rise aboove being mere destructive apes. Apes made even more dangerous through technology and culture. Gorillas, organgutans and bonobos are gentler than us.

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@minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-30 01:31

People won’t change if they don’t want to and offering what you suggest open us up to significant risk. Offering compassion, understanding and acceptance of ppl who are already killing others doesn’t seem wise to me. Some of these people are epsychopaths and sociopaths, their empathy, neurologically, physically doesn’t function. No amount of love can change that. Secondly those apes successfully got us to the top of the food chain and out of the reach of most natural hazards and predators. Those same apes getting more power is a massive liability though so the rest of us seem stuck between psychos with nukes and lovers who can’t protect themselves from physical harms. I don’t think love is the answer here, certainly not on this own.

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