Did World War I actually doom humanity? I read some theories that the butterfly effect of that event has already sealed humanity's fate from the moment it occurred, and that without it we'd have much better odds.
By Anonymous | Updated 02/23/26(Mon)00:06:27
Did World War I actually doom humanity? I read some theories that the butterfly effect of that event has already sealed humanity's fate from the moment it occurred, and that without it we'd have much better odds.
We're all just living a deterministic chain of events from the assassination of the Archduke we will continue to for many more centuries until the timeline (metaphorically) jumps, or we go extinct as a result of its lightcone.
If you think about basically everything in the world that follows from the causal chain induced by World War I, it all makes sense. We could've chilled out after the Napoleonic Wars. It really was possible.
I suppose the US civil war may end up being its own localized version of this, too. Though it's more an America A vs. America B thing and not fully a geographical divide thing, now.
Your fortune: Godly Luck >>12804927
Maybe. IDK. Maybe there could've been a smaller-scale version of it that let people to become much more averse to any future major powers war, and we never would've ended up with anything like WWI or WWII.
I guess the better thing is to not dwell so much on the past and to try to prevent humanity's future extinction. There is no guarantee that humanity will go extinct in the next 1000 years, even if it seems hard to think of how it won't. It takes people who all have that same thought coming together trying to prevent it as much as they can.
(At least if one has a moral system that considers the prolonged longevity of humanity/other sapient life a beneficial thing, as mine does.) >>12804940
>Maybe there could've been a smaller-scale version of it that let people to become much more averse to any future major powers war
That makes 0 sense, why would a smaller war make people averse to keep warring, if that worked you wouldn't have had WW1 in the first place, nor any war for that matter because every war but the first has had a smaller war before itself
Your fortune: Godly Luck >>12804920
Yeah every soldier who ever died in a war is a retard
oh you're willing to die for an abstract idea that's cute
Your fortune: Good news will come to you by mail >>12805111
retard trips
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