Okay. I agree some people genuinely want to mass murder the other side just to get slightly more resources. I just want more data that this would actually be a majority.
Why do you put the onus on proving that there is one rule about it being a majority? We know it happens. It’s hard to say for stuff like the Nazis because technically the people only voted for some guy who was certainly very gung-ho about militarism and about the need for Germany to expand, but then the matter was basically taken out of their hands, and it was at best a plurality to begin with...
Yes, obviously there is no one case I can present to say “here’s a situation where at least 50%+1 of the population genuinely was in favour of war”. Neither can you prove that this has never happened. All we know is that some people do express favour for war; sometimes there are even mass movements in favour of it, depending on circumstances; and it would be somewhat odd if by some strange hidden law of social dynamics that fraction could never exceed 50%, despite having definitely been significant in various occasions we can refer to.
I think de-escalating would also be easier when people of both countries have high level of visibility into what people of the other country are feeling and why.
I don’t think that’s achieved just by “no more secrecy” though. Understanding how another country’s population feels isn’t a matter of that information being concealed, but hard to measure and aggregate.
Why do you put the onus on proving that there is one rule about it being a majority? We know it happens. It’s hard to say for stuff like the Nazis because technically the people only voted for some guy who was certainly very gung-ho about militarism and about the need for Germany to expand, but then the matter was basically taken out of their hands, and it was at best a plurality to begin with...
Yes, obviously there is no one case I can present to say “here’s a situation where at least 50%+1 of the population genuinely was in favour of war”. Neither can you prove that this has never happened. All we know is that some people do express favour for war; sometimes there are even mass movements in favour of it, depending on circumstances; and it would be somewhat odd if by some strange hidden law of social dynamics that fraction could never exceed 50%, despite having definitely been significant in various occasions we can refer to.
Anyway at the very least we seem to have evidence that over 50% of Israelis believe the current war in Gaza is appropriate or even not harsh enough. That’s a bit of evidence.
I don’t think that’s achieved just by “no more secrecy” though. Understanding how another country’s population feels isn’t a matter of that information being concealed, but hard to measure and aggregate.