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Originally posted by Erax:
And while I agree that wargames are a training for war, I think you're still standing too close to the forest. The purpose of games is the same as that of fiction : to allow you to make the choices you would have to make in a dangerous situation, without placing yourself in actual danger.

Sorry to nitpick, but think you just described a training tool. if I was to come up with a counter arguement, it would have been something along the lines of "well sure, Napoleon played them to simulate battles, and Chess was originally a game for kings and tacticians, but I play them to have FUN, and so does everyone else on this board. what crawled up your arse and died, puke?"

of course, you're more polite than me.

Originally posted by Narf:
that's why technology will never come up with the solution - any technology can be used for good or evil. it's the people that are the critical part.

yes, but people are only unreliable when you expect too much of them. if you rely on their baser natures, you wont be let down nearly as often. and for your requisite sarcasm about how to find safety from technology and what to do about that pesky progress, i will defer to another source:

Originally written by H.P.L.:[/qb]The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

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