@Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • edit-22 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-square96fedilinkarrow-up1143arrow-down118file-text
arrow-up1125arrow-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-22 months agomessage-square96fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareIninewCrowlinkfedilinkEnglish18•2 months agoIf a civilization chooses not to be civil … why call it a civilization?
minus-square@feedum_sneedson@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilink18•2 months agoThat’s just not how language really works, Axl.
minus-square@OpenStars@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 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…