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What's with all these topics about the bomb lately? Are we looking to blow ourselves up in the near future?
I've said it before and I'll say it again: A nuclear device is just another type of explosive with a set of properties unique to its design. Giving it some sort of magical killing/evil powers beyond these properties owes itself to both the monopoly on their development in the irresponsible hands of governments using them as weapons and poor understanding of its potential applications and effects begetting fear of the unknown. Any group of people collectively mature enough to handle dynamite without blowing themselves all to bits can do the same thing with a nuke, which might prove more necessary if future engineering obstacles in say... space call for a more efficient blasting system than conventional TNT.
If anything we should be more suspicious of those people who insist that a given object is impossible to handle in a non-aggressive manner. If we accept on less than solid premises that object X is too dangerous for acting individuals to possess, what's to stop this same line of thought from coming after objects Y and Z? Tolerating such incrementalism would only serve to refresh the cycle of limitations imposed by distant arbiters claiming to know better than you, and surely once we reach that point we're abaondoning the illegitimacy of institutionalized aggression by government.
Anyone got a link to a topic about claims of successful Menonite socialism or something? I have Marxist friends that need debunking.
Why do you think it would be a problem? Do you know anyone that wants to own a nuclear weapon?
How does the world today deal with them? USA has them, Monaco doesn't. What's preventing the former from blackmailing the latter for all they've got and into total slavery?
Z.
We had a pretty long thread about the topic a month ago:
http://mises.org/Community/forums/t/16041.aspx?PageIndex=1
We'd find Tony Stark to deal with it.
Z,
Have you finally had enough with the State?
"Objectification of the value of goods, which is entirely subjective in nature, has nevertheless contributed very greatly to confusion about the basic principles of our science." - Principles of Economics
who has ever done that??
Z, Have you finally had enough with the State?
Still close to Mises on that one. Not much change from before.
If mutually-assured destruction can prevent states from blowing each other to Hell, I don't see why individuals wouldn't follow the same principles.
If there was no state, then what would 'terrorists' have to blow up?
Anyway, if it weren't for the personal discretion exercised by a few select Soviet petty officers at various times during the Cold War, we'd be having this discussion in an underground bunker.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: A nuclear device is just another type of explosive with a set of properties unique to its design.
This nonsense was debunked in the last thread on this topic.
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.—Karl Kraus.
Nukem first.