[lit-ideas] Re: Vanunu's Secret
- From: Scribe1865@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:04:29 EDT
In a message dated 4/26/2004 5:29:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx writes:
*Why is the important thing that no *new* countries
obtain nukes, instead that there be less nukes ?
Six apes with hammers in a room full of harpsichords have less possibility of
causing damage than sixty apes with hammers. Fewer apes with hammers is
always a better thing in and of itself.
This obviously mixes political objectives with your stated
concerns of non-proliferation.
It's a Prisoner's Dilemma for Apes with Hammers. Apes without Hammers have to
find other ways to express national pride, power, and accomplishment;
otherwise, it'll be Apes with Hammers for all, and exeunt omnia sooner or
later.
As far as I can see,
non-proliferation is itself not a particularly
important goal except insofar as it reduces the danger
that nuclear weapons get used.
Like ... duh. If you regard that as "not particularly important," it's hard
to answer your objection here, for you evidently think the use of nuclear
weapons is fine as long as some of the Apes with Hammers are wearing your team
colors. Go team, go!
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