Is Conflict Resolution by Kings the Best Solution?

[wolram]

Is this the ultimate tool of a super power, and a cowardly solution to conflict? would not (kings) fighting (kings) be be the best solution to war.

 

[Focus]

Would not having a war at all be a better solution to war?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Is this the ultimate tool of a super power, and a cowardly solution to conflict? would not (kings) fighting (kings) be be the best solution to war.

Obviously you don't appreciate the thrill of robot warfare.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joDjwtjIQS8

 

[wolram]

Would not having a war at all be a better solution to war?

For sure it would.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

For sure it would.

If warfare is to be eliminated, it will happen through economics and information flow, not philosophy.

 

[MATLABdude]

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

From Wikiquote:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_E_Lee

 

[wolram]

If warfare is to be eliminated, it will happen through economics and information flow, not philosophy.

Nice one Ivan.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Nikola Tesla proposed robotic warfare as a better means of conducting war. He apparently made demonstrations of radio controlled robots to the military but they were not interested. Probably too expensive.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

While in high school I gave a speech in which I argued that technology could lead to warfare in which no lives need to be lost. Of course I was looking at the world through the eyes of a young American who perceived the Soviet as the only real threat. But the idea was that once one side gained an advantage by destroying the other's defenses - say for example by destroying a space based LASER shield that guards against missile attack - the other side would simply surrender or they would face certain destruction. For many years I believed that day would come, but now it seems far less likely than before.

 

[Count Iblis]

http://iss.whu.edu.cn/degaris/

 

[mgb_phys]

So round one is between the IDF's robotic bulldozer and the Australian's robotic haul truck.