It never struck me as *that* sort of arm's race. No
It's more a 'bragging rights' race, trying to out-cool each other to sell the civilian models rather than trying to out-kill and out-defend each other.. Who's got the biggest gun? Who's the fastest accelerating? Who's closest to the source material or has the most entertaining gimmick. And once having the biggest or fastest warplane stops generating reputation, people will stop building them and concentrating on other things. There comes a point when the majority of fen will start to naturally backlash as it gets just a bit too silly and goes beyond good-natured competition and into something worrying. There's no need for laws, and any laws might be troublesome to enforce.
I don't see a lot of this as 'militarization' as such.... it's just another group of people who want to play at being gundam pilots or fighter pilots in the same way some like playing at being magical girls or whatever. And it may be a waste of money or resource but.... some good will always come of it. There're always trickle down benefits. And having a whole bunch of spacecraft with decent sensor arrays can be rather useful for things other than making space-stations go away.
That said, even the true warriors who've made combat a way of life are trying to find things to do with themselves that doesn't involve violence.
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It's more a 'bragging rights' race, trying to out-cool each other to sell the civilian models rather than trying to out-kill and out-defend each other.. Who's got the biggest gun? Who's the fastest accelerating? Who's closest to the source material or has the most entertaining gimmick. And once having the biggest or fastest warplane stops generating reputation, people will stop building them and concentrating on other things. There comes a point when the majority of fen will start to naturally backlash as it gets just a bit too silly and goes beyond good-natured competition and into something worrying. There's no need for laws, and any laws might be troublesome to enforce.
I don't see a lot of this as 'militarization' as such.... it's just another group of people who want to play at being gundam pilots or fighter pilots in the same way some like playing at being magical girls or whatever. And it may be a waste of money or resource but.... some good will always come of it. There're always trickle down benefits. And having a whole bunch of spacecraft with decent sensor arrays can be rather useful for things other than making space-stations go away.
That said, even the true warriors who've made combat a way of life are trying to find things to do with themselves that doesn't involve violence.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?