I am saying the stakes are enormously not in favor of cooperating just for the chance the other parties defect. Very similar to the logic that lead to nuclear arsenal buildups in the cold war.
As terrible as those weapons, it would have been even more terrible for the other side to secretly defect then surprise attack with them, an action we can be virtually certain they would have committed. Note this is bilateral: this is equally true from the East and West sides of the cold war.
I am saying the stakes are enormously not in favor of cooperating just for the chance the other parties defect. Very similar to the logic that lead to nuclear arsenal buildups in the cold war.
As terrible as those weapons, it would have been even more terrible for the other side to secretly defect then surprise attack with them, an action we can be virtually certain they would have committed. Note this is bilateral: this is equally true from the East and West sides of the cold war.