It's idealistically nice to suggest that people won't take conflict with them to elsewhere in space, but ultimately- and unfortunately- it is unrealistic. Likewise, it is idealistically evil to suggest that this is a good thing.
Yes, war can result in a gain. But not without an absolutely monumental cost. If it were not for WWII technological development would have panned out quite differently. But it is still a conflict in which
tens of millions of people died, innumerable numbers more were subject to terrible suffering, and an economic, political and physical damage that was so severe as to distinctly seperate the 20th century into the "pre-war" and "post-war" years.
Urwumpe summed it up best:
You must be feeling far away from war.
If you think about war, you must think first about your country being invaded. Or bombed. Think, in detail, of what would happen if your area was hit by a nuclear weapon. It is, to understate an AU as a meter: "not nice".
If this means we have war exclusively on the moon (no longer on Earth) it is fine for me.
So the lives of soldiers fighting such a war on the Moon don't matter anymore? What about noncombatants or peaceful civillians? What about infrastructure on the Moon being damaged and/or destroyed, affecting life on Earth? Or even the sheer economic cost of the whole thing?
forgive me for this very bad joke.
:lol
