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Jevons paradox, but for violence.

Right now there's a lot of killing that's only limited by the risk of collateral damage.

Flipped around, the best deterrent against major wars is mutually assured destruction.

In California they were set up by Schwarzenegger and dismantled by Jerry Brown in 2011 to save 1.7 million per year.

“When the Department of Finance was looking at this, they asked a question: ‘How many times have the mobile field hospitals been used since we bought them?’ ” he said. “That was the same question they asked (the Public Health Department). ‘You’re not using it, why do we have it?’ ”

https://revealnews.org/article/california-created-a-massive-...