Originally posted by Meikai
It's just harder to make an immovable object; harder to make impenetrable armor - especially for practical man-portable purposes. But in the terms of platonic ideals, the best defense beats the best offense. Definitionally. It is more effective. Transferring that wisdom to practical reality is hard, but even here in our squishy messy world a nuclear bunker still beats a nuke. In the eternal spiritual arms race, defense wins.
the cost to build deep-penetrating missiles vs the cost to dig out and build reinforced concrete structures is massively weighted in the missile's favour.
it's not just harder to make 'impenetrable' armor, it's impossible because barring some kind of entirely new, asymmetrical paradigm, anything you can make armor from you can make a weapon from, and any weapon benefits from the inherent advantages an attacker has over a defender.'
deterrence to avoid conflict is the most cost-effective because you don't actually need to expend munitions and armor and don't have to keep rebuilding them.
assume you're attacked on the street and you have the choice of a gun or a bulletproof vest - a vest stops the bullet if your attacker shoots you in it, but it does nothing to stop them from getting close enough to shoot you somewhere else
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Yeah I'm gonna spend it meditating in a grove too. A grove full of four-leaf Grovers. All the softest cutest animals will gravitate toward me and we will combine our energies and drift into the nights sky never to be seen again
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Last year with in Cornwall with friends was nice, but would have been nice regardless.
Year before that my cunt of a sister kicked me out on Christmas Eve. Cuz I was sad.
The holiday shit stressed me the fuck out, caused my insurance to bounce and then she told me to get out. I slept in a storage room in a commercial building I had access to, ended up going down to like -35/-40 for a week and pipes burst in there... Yada yada yada plumber showed up and I lost what little trust the company had in me. My work.
It's on me but honestly as far as worst possible outcomes? Yeah thats my life summed up.
The idea of that cunt celebrating family and goodwill gets to me to no end.
Whatever, c'est la vie.
Fuck.
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