User blog comment:JakePT/Mass Effect 3 to be Revealed at VGA Awards?/@comment-77.166.106.20-20101127144843/@comment-217683-20101127203732

Yeah, the idea that technology can negate the human psyche is just ludicrous. Don't get me wrong here, I'm not calling the comments of the last poster ludicrous as much as I am calling the idea itself, which is unfortunately a pretty common one, ludicrous. Technology can't prevent war any more than government or legislation can prevent war. Even the uber-idealist Gene Roddenberry realized that one when he was writing Star Trek. In fact, technology and war go hand-in-hand. That's why we generally see the biggest leaps in technology during times of war. Look at WWII. When we started the war, planes were propeller driven and could go around 400 mph. By the end of the war, we had jets. Not to mention all sorts of other new inventions and novelties. Computers came about largely because of the war and the need to decode German communications. We split the atom because of war! We went to space in the '50s and the moon in the '60s because of war (both because of knowledge gained in WWII and the rivalry of the Cold War).

And let's not forget that it was aliens who started the first war with humans in ME. In fact, aliens made contact with us by starting an unprovoked war!!! So much for not making contact with primitive 'ol us!