Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-27 months agoIn the show "3 Body Problem" (I haven't read the book) the statement was made 'our civilization is no longer capable of solving its own problems'. Would you agree?message-squaremessage-square111fedilinkarrow-up1144arrow-down117file-text
arrow-up1127arrow-down1message-squareIn the show "3 Body Problem" (I haven't read the book) the statement was made 'our civilization is no longer capable of solving its own problems'. Would you agree?Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-27 months agomessage-square111fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareKingOfSleep@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down2·7 months agoCapable? Yes. Willing? No.
minus-squarelemmyreader@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·7 months agoCould not have said it better.
minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·7 months agoIf a civilization chooses not to be civil … why call it a civilization?
minus-squarefeedum_sneedson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down1·7 months agoThat’s just not how language really works, Axl.
minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·7 months agoMe fail English? … That’s unpossible
minus-squareHarbinger01173430@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoBecause they have civilians
minus-squareOpenStars@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoI think Capable should be downgraded to a Maybe at this point…
Capable? Yes. Willing? No.
Could not have said it better.
If a civilization chooses not to be civil … why call it a civilization?
That’s just not how language really works, Axl.
Me fail English? … That’s unpossible
Because they have civilians
I think Capable should be downgraded to a Maybe at this point…