Mastodawn

Manufacturing weapons for sale should be a taboo profession like undertaker or executioner. You should have to paint your door black or something and your daughters can't get married IDK. SOMETHING

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kit 22h ago

@futurebird

Absolutely with you about the death dealers, but I think I’d argue that if we made undertakers a respected profession, there to help us look at the death of our loved ones in the face, as an important part of our humanity, it’d make it harder for us (as a society) to do the random gross murders of others.

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myrmepropagandist 22h ago

@hypostase

I was more using it as an example of how such things have existed. War is such a huge part of the economy that there isn't any incentive to try to not have as many wars.

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kit

@futurebird I agree, especially about the warmongering incentives.

I do think a fundamental problem is how we distance ourselves from death, whether it’s in how we allow people to be killed, or in how we choose what to eat, but ostracising the warmongers and profiteers would be a very good thing.