For the first time in 22 years, two German warships will sail through the Taiwan Strait, a move likely to provoke Beijing. Germany joins other Western nations in asserting freedom of navigation in the region amid China’s territorial claims over Taiwan
  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    3 months ago

    NATO doesn’t have any feelings and isn’t pleased or displeased about anything.

    Organizations are composed of people, my friend. And people have feelings.

    Those strategist are typically smart people who listen to all kinds of things.

    I’ve heard the same said of Joe Rogan.

    • nednobbins@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Yes and emergent behavior goes both ways. Organizations have many properties that the individuals they’re made up of don’t have and they lack many properties that individuals have. Organizations don’t have feelings. Even in the rare cases when the feelings of the people in those organizations are homogeneous, the organizations almost never manifest those feelings without significant alterations.

      Are you seriously comparing Joe Rogan with NATO strategists?

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        3 months ago

        Organizations don’t have feelings.

        Organizations are composed of people, my friend. And people have feelings.