[churnedgodotdev]

> "gen z" students expect the "system" to adapt to address their struggles

I hope Gen Z soldiers don't have this attitude.

[Mortar round blows off leg of Gen Z platoon grunt.]

"OMG! Mortar rounds are SO UNFAIR!" Let's sign a change.org petition demanding mortar rounds only emit harmless pink smoke. If we end up with pink smoke in our foxhole we can demand more time to dig a deeper, better concealed foxhole.

[brutal_chaos_]

They could also be the type of people that get chemical/bioweapons/newer weapons banned from international war, as other pink smoke mortar loving people have done in the past.

[WalterBright]

One of the reasons chemical weapons were banned was because they were ineffective, and had the unfortunate tendency to blow the wrong way over the lines.

Bioweapons are also just as likely to kill your own side.

[hilbert42]

Noble thought but unlikely. With the end of WWII and the formation of the UN it was hoped that the development of newer and more terrifying weapons would stop but it was a false and unrealistic hope. I'm of the Woodstock generation and we thought the world was in for a much better age but tragically that never eventuated, wars never stopped and they're now escalating again in serious ways.

One hardly needs to study history to realize that it's mainly the study of wars, weaponry and people killing each other. It's taught us that civilization has always cycled between a state of fragile peace that's constantly within a hair's trigger from ending and actual war itself and descent into barbarism—and the longer the cycles of peace last the more sensitive the hair-trigger becomes.

Few would be happier than me to see this or the next generation succeeding as you suggest, but on the evidence I'd reckon the odds of success are extremely slim—so slim in fact that I'd put substantial money on it. As success would mean a complete turnaround in what's happened throughout all of human history—and as the unprovoked war in Ukraine has shown, we are not yet even on the starting block!

I'd also suggest that come any serious global conflict, treaties outlawing chemical and bioweapons etc. will be violated on a whim and the evidence is that it's already happened in comparatively small conflicts—not to mention Putin's sabre-rattling threat of not ruling out the nuclear option (and he's done so in what is still just a local conflict, albeit a serious one). What would be worse, the nuclear option or the other big two?

(As I write this my conviction is being further strengthened—I've just watched back-to-back television footage of the latest bombing of an apartment building in Ukraine where people were killed and the killing of dozens of innocent children in Thailand by of all people a parent!)