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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (332397)4/10/2007 9:44:26 AM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (2) of 1570626
 
Well, I struggle with that as well. How can we get the bad actors to not develop nukes when we have more than anyone else? It is very hypocritical. But at the end of the day, Middle Easterners see no problem in killing innocents every day. 9/11 was just a small sample of that. We agonize over the death of 1 person. So that tells me Western societies are far more advanced when it comes to human rights and so we have all sorts of societal taboos that would hold us back from another nuclear war. In the Middle East, they have fatwas that justify the killing of up to 10,000,000 Americans. So although our actions seem hypocritical, I believe that hypocracy is completely justified.

Let me give you another example. The Department of Motor Vehicles has age limits on when people can start driving. A 16 year old can drive, but a 13 year old cannot. Why? The 13 year old has a higher probability of killing someone if he gets behind the wheel. Such is the same with Democratic, Western societies vs Religious Dictatorships in the Middle East. Put a nuke in a Western country's hands and put a nuke in a Middle Eastern country's hands and I'd bet the Middle Eastern country would use it in war or in a terrorist act before the Western country would.

We all wish nukes for war had never been invented. But now that they have, we need to keep them out of as many people's hands as possible, at least until humans have successfully colonized another planet and enabled that other planet to live independently of Earth's resources. If we allow proliferation, then we are sealing the fate of the human race. It's pretty much that simple.
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