John D. Giorgis wrote:
<me, once again cleverly disguising flamebait as an innocent question)
>> (On a side note, why is it OK for the US to
>>be armed to the teeth with nuclear missiles, but Horror Upon Horror for
>>anybody else to have one? Honest, I wanna know. What makes us so much
>>more responsible?)
>Given that there is effectively zero chance of convincing the USA to give
>up its nuclear weapons (or China, or Russia, and effectively UK or France
>as well...), the best way to keep bad things from proliferating is to keep
>additional countries from adding themselves to that list.
Nice logic, but doesn't justify the paranoia or this strange term "rogue
nations" I keep hearing thrown around.
>
>Of course, at this point I would point out that the USA has made more
>ethical advances in the past 100 years than any other nation - but you
>never seem much interested in addressing that point.
The Japanese disagree.
Also, I think you've just offended the Europeans. And most other people.
John, the entire *world* has made massive leaps in ethics over the past
century, with the possible exception of places like China and Russia,
which were pretty bad off to start with. We don't really set the ethical
tone of the world; we just think we do.
We haven't gone the farthest, and we certainly haven't gone the fastest-
in fact, a depressing amount of our "ethical development" has involved
descovering entirely new atrocities to be horrified about.
Kat Feete
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It is said that whosoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make
mad. In fact, whosoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand
the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite
Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't
take so long.
-Terry Pratchett
