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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Sdgla who wrote (185703)11/9/2006 2:18:33 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (2) of 793799
 
I don't think we need to worry about a shortage of human DNA any time soon if nukes are used by civilian terrorists as population reduction tools as that will just reduce the numbers without changing the mix much at all. More people die from what they choose to put in their mouths than I think will die from civilian terrorist nuclear bomb attacks.

It wouldn't be a catastrophe like the selective and successful elimination of millions of European Jews by the Germans, French, Austrians and others. I prefer not to restrict the accusation to the SS or Nazis, which is conventionally done to try to pretend that it was just a few bad eggs - it wasn't, there were huge numbers of supporters of genocide.

Just car crashes and civilian gunshot deaths each couple of years in the USA matches the Hiroshima deaths. Car crashes and gunshots preferentially eliminate "the right stuff" because a high proportion of those deaths are self-selected. Same for what people choose to eat. So those deaths are far preferable to the random involuntary deaths from terrorist attacks which kill the "wrong stuff" along with the "right stuff".

Choosing the right things to worry about is tricky. There's a feast of problems and threats.

Mqurice
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