It’s saying that if you can prevent a doomsday device from being lethal in some ways and not in others, then it’s still lethal. Focussing on some ways that you feel confident that you might be able to prevent the doomsday device from being lethal is IMO distracting dangerously from the point, which is that people should not built the doomsday device in the first place.
No, it’s not like that.
It’s saying that if you can prevent a doomsday device from being lethal in some ways and not in others, then it’s still lethal. Focussing on some ways that you feel confident that you might be able to prevent the doomsday device from being lethal is IMO distracting dangerously from the point, which is that people should not built the doomsday device in the first place.