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Re: Oddball thoughts (was: Hiroshima-Was It Necessary?)
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Mon, 22 Oct 2001 04:07:12 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> > >
> > > Here's an oddball thought: Imagine a world where Hiroshima and
> > > Nagasaki were never bombed, and nuclear weapons were never seen
> > > in action on such a comparatively small scale. I'd be willing
> > > to posit that in such a world, a Cuban Missile Crisis would
> > > have become World War III, and we wouldn't be here flapping
> > > our jaw-meat about it. Does the end justify the means? Can
> > > there not be any *positive* value to having seen the horror of
> > > a Hiroshima and Nagasaki relative to the survival of humanity?
> >
> > Here's another oddball thought: It's likely humanity will eventually cease to
> > exist at some time in the future, anyway, so was it worth imparting
> > such horror
> > on the Japanese population, just to keep humanity going a bit longer?
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> Was that a serious question?
Nah, just an oddball thought. People seemed to be considering "what if"s, and
that was my oddball "what if" taken to extremes 8?)
> What are the alternative values to weigh against? I see humanity as good for
> millions of years, actually. We may actually last all the way to the heat
> death of the universe, we're pretty clever.
We'd have to come up with some sort of practical interstellar travel technique
first - the solar system's gonna get unlivable way before the death of the
universe. But (IMO) we're gonna be history way before that.
ROSCO
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