J Thomas, I state again that a world without nuclear weapons is NOT a realistic option. If we didn’t develop them, someone else would. If not now, eventually. And even if you make the unlikly assertion that no one would develop them if they didn’t exist now, the objective fact is that people HAVE developed them and they DO exist now. Putting the genie back in the bottle is simply impossible, and wishing it were otherwise won’t make it so.
We have enemies. We always have, and if you seriously believe that we won’t always have enemies, you’re far deeper into santa-claus-land than I am. There’s simply no evidence whatsoever for the position that people will somehow permanently put aside all of their differences and live happily ever after until the end of time.
Now don’t get me wrong—I wish there weren’t nuclear weapons at least as much as you. Probably more, because I don’t think our enemies can be talked out of trying to kill us. And sooner or later they’ll get ahold of a nuclear weapon and detonate it, probably in a major US city. The difference between us is that I’m willing to face the fact that there are and always will be nuclear weapons, whereas you seem to think that if you hide from this admittedly uncomfortable fact you’ll somehow be immune from its logical conclusion. Good luck with that—just be sure to put on some SPF-1,000,000 sunscreen and I’m sure everything will work out just fine.
J Thomas, I state again that a world without nuclear weapons is NOT a realistic option. If we didn’t develop them, someone else would. If not now, eventually. And even if you make the unlikly assertion that no one would develop them if they didn’t exist now, the objective fact is that people HAVE developed them and they DO exist now. Putting the genie back in the bottle is simply impossible, and wishing it were otherwise won’t make it so.
We have enemies. We always have, and if you seriously believe that we won’t always have enemies, you’re far deeper into santa-claus-land than I am. There’s simply no evidence whatsoever for the position that people will somehow permanently put aside all of their differences and live happily ever after until the end of time.
Now don’t get me wrong—I wish there weren’t nuclear weapons at least as much as you. Probably more, because I don’t think our enemies can be talked out of trying to kill us. And sooner or later they’ll get ahold of a nuclear weapon and detonate it, probably in a major US city. The difference between us is that I’m willing to face the fact that there are and always will be nuclear weapons, whereas you seem to think that if you hide from this admittedly uncomfortable fact you’ll somehow be immune from its logical conclusion. Good luck with that—just be sure to put on some SPF-1,000,000 sunscreen and I’m sure everything will work out just fine.