At 16:36 20-7-01 -0500, Adam Lipscomb wrote:
>Kat wrote:
> > All right, we have symbolically refrained from using nuclear weapons on
> > numerous occasions. But aren't we sort of the only people who've ever
> > *used* nuclear weapons? Doesn't that sort of muck up our track record?
>
>Let me ask you a question. Would you believe an alcoholic that told you it
>was a bad idea to drink too much? WOuld you believe a man that had killed
>another man in self defense tell you it was a bad idea to take a human life?
>Or would you assume that if *they* did it then you could too? I'd say that
>we as a nation know better than anyone else what it does to a people to use
>these weapons. That doesn't make us more noble, but it gives our nation a
>different perspective on it.
I don't think you made a very accurate comparison here. When someone
becomes an alcoholic, he can become a wreck, both physically and mentally.
Killing someone in self-defense is likely to have a great emotional impact
on the killer, scarring him for life.
However, I don't see how the American public was physically and emotionally
damaged for life when their military dropped nuclear bombs on Japan.
Jeroen
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