Two wrongs don't make a right (the (ir)rationality of revenge) - also gun control

There are two possibilities: either MAD works, or it doesn't. If it does, the US will invade us anyway, because they know we won't use our nuclear weapons against them, and they can resort to their overwhelming conventional power. If MAD doesn't work, we will use our nuclear weapons against the invading US, who will react by annihilating our small country with theirs. Either way we loose. But I'd rather be invaded and alive than invaded and vaporized. So, would I wish to have nuclear weapons? No, I don't think so.

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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.

Well said. Besides, even if someone had known what was to come, there would have been a million ways of preventing Hitler to do what he did, other than killing him.Edited by Parasomnium, : No reason given.

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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.