Nuclear weapons

[Bubba Fuzz]

I think in the right hands they can be used as a great tool. Although they need to watch out for N. Korea and Iran. If they get nukes (they might already I don't know) then were screwed.

 

[Mechanical Scythe]

I think they are immoral as that much destructive power should not be in the incapable hands of man..though the current situation of the world seems to demand a higher power to eliminate when nothing else can be done.

 

[DtheK]

Lol... don't try to design a math problem about life, doesn't really work.

I spent some time looking for the book it came from, but couldn't find it... look it up: the author is Jonathan Schell.

It makes sense, though, doesn't it?

Lol'd. Yeah that happens every day right? *shit i pressed the big red button*

It doesn't matter how small the probability... when you're faced with an outcome like extinction, going off the previous equation, the risk is still substantial (even infinity).

Scenario: Guy contemplates robbing a house, but knows he could go to jail or get shot by owner etc. He decides not to by process of 'deterrence' aka 'fear' as you said. This makes laws immoral because it controls people through fear? Moron.

Not the best argument, I admit.

I wish there was no such thing, but they exist, so it's both moral and necessary to have them.

By the way, DtheK, you don't happen to be an LDer, do you? ^_^

Yeah, I am.

okay, they're bad.

when Eisenhower first rendezvoused with the aliens, one of the points that the aliens made was for all the nations to destroy their nuclear weapons. Of course the people of earth didn't abide because we still have weapons but they basically told the aliens that it would be stupid to destroy their nuclear weapons with such an unclear future(referring to the aliens and now knowing what technology they posses).

I see the nuclear weapons as a form of interplanetary protection.

What? Any aliens advanced enough to reach Earth will most likely be so technologically superior that nuclear weapons may not be any more effective than conventional ones.

 

[kill dank]

I really hope your jokeing The thing With Nuclear weapons Is that if someone sets one off there will be a domino Effect and will set a chain reaction off Which means another war which will last days becuse of the weapons that a possed now ect .

The aliens wanted the nuclear weapons destroyed for the exact reason you said. they knew if something were to happen, it would ruin the planet, its resources, and themselves.

What? Any aliens advanced enough to reach Earth will most likely be so technologically superior that nuclear weapons may not be any more effective than conventional ones.

not true. just because they are advanced enough to do one thing, doesn't mean they're advanced enough to do another. We can travel in space, but we're still dressing ourselves right?

 

[DtheK]

The aliens

What aliens? Empirics please?

 

[kill dank]

What aliens? Empirics please?

Franklin Allen of the Hearst newspapers
Edwin Nourse of Brookings Institute
Nelson Rockefeller
Gerald Light of metaphysical research fame
and Eisenhower met with the aliens while supposedly on his trip to palm springs in 1954