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Re: Just Teasing, I Have No Intention of Debating Any of This...
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Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:47:31 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Spencer Nowak writes:
> Hypothetical Situation: Let ! = a group of terrorists
> Let @ = an autocratic country with wmds, built or in
> progress. Also, they dont have a single resource anyone would want
> Let # = a country that the 2 above hate with every
> fiber of their being
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> Now then: ! and @ are brought together by a common interest-destruction of #
> @ gives wmds to !, knowing it is the best way to hurt #
> # knows that ! and @ want to destroy # and that they have the means to
> atleast hurt #. If you were #, what would you do?
Modified hypothetical:
Let a = whacky terrorist group run by a psychopath.
Let b = nuke-bearing dictatorship run by a guy who likes
living the good life and pretty evil, but not
plausibly insane.
Let c = big country that they both hate.
So, a and b would both like to see c crumble...so far we're agreeing. But, if
b gives a nuke to a that is then used on c, while c is stinging at the insult,
c will utterly eradicate from this Earth all of b. And everyone knows this.
So, b, much as he might like to see c hurt, will not give the nuke to a.
The truth is, that if Saddam provided Bin Laden with a nuke that was then
detonated in Manhattan, we cleanse the desert with nuclear hellfire and leave
it a glowing ecological disaster for 20,000 years. It would be an attack of
unprecidented magnitude. And we would go down in history as monsters, but we
would do it anyway because the capacity for vengence that is within our psyche
would demand it. Hussein is no fool.
Chris
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