[lit-ideas] Re: Happy Hiroshima Day!
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- Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 15:57:08 EDT
My husband has a long habit of strongly distinguishing between "the best we
can" and "the best we know how". I struggle to figure out what the
distinction exactly is, and how it applies in my everyday life of quotidian
minutiae.
Julie Krueger
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Andy: Do you really think we flawed humans are doing the best we
can? To me that is a depressing thought.
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Eric: Happy Hiroshima Day!
Yes I think we do the best we can, not the best we can imagine. Far
from being depressing, it is quite hopeful that we haven't destroyed
each other yet.
In the early '80s I thought we were all doomed because of the
build-up in USSR/US nuclear missiles. I mean, having two monkeys
with thousands of nuclear weapons each is almost as bad as having a
thousand monkeys with two nuclear weapons each. But the expected
technical systems failure resulting in nuclear war did not happen. Yay!
So if the monkeys with nukes can prevent the other monkeys from
acquiring nukes, maybe, just maybe, all the monkeys will be able to
live until we all put our nukes away ... or develop even more potent
planet-smashing weapons.
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