I’d say nukes, as they are the only human invention so far that can end all of life as we know it in an instant.
I still can’t blame the countries who built them as a response to the US wanting to use them to become world ruler, which they absolutely would have done if the other countries didn’t also build nukes.
But simply as an invention leaving politics aside, fuck nukes.
Noep nukes are good for world peace actually we are having a confrontation between the US and Russia and the nukes are closing off higher conventional escalation options. Everybody needs a nuke
Still, there have been really close calls historically which were only avoided because of some good decisions by individuals (e.g. Vasily Arkhipov. These could happen again with less wise decisions made. Not saying that any countries having them today could be getting rid of them realistically without the US waiting outside their door, but one day when we will hopefully be living in more peaceful times without imperialists, we should be putting them in the time capsule of history along with the system that made them necessary in the first place.
one day when we will hopefully be living in more peaceful times without imperialists
You don’t read much history? Humans have never lived in widespread peace for any length of time. We have evidence of violence between groups of humans well back into the Stone Age. We are not a species prone to peace.
Not sure why you have a snarky tone about it, but there definitely have been times in human history that were not using war as a means of carving out resources and spheres of influence. Comparing tribes fighting to today’s reasons for war is pretty pointless, and so is defining a immutable “human nature”. If anything, the nature of humans is to change their nature.
I’d say nukes, as they are the only human invention so far that can end all of life as we know it in an instant. I still can’t blame the countries who built them as a response to the US wanting to use them to become world ruler, which they absolutely would have done if the other countries didn’t also build nukes. But simply as an invention leaving politics aside, fuck nukes.
The “as we know it” is doing a lot of work.
In a nuclear war loads of people wouldn’t die but would love unhappily ever after.
I think it’d be hard to get into the mood at all tbh.
Noep nukes are good for world peace actually we are having a confrontation between the US and Russia and the nukes are closing off higher conventional escalation options. Everybody needs a nuke
and yet, my campaign slogan “a gun in every pocket and a nuke in every bedroom” didn’t really seem to resonate with the voters.
Still, there have been really close calls historically which were only avoided because of some good decisions by individuals (e.g. Vasily Arkhipov. These could happen again with less wise decisions made. Not saying that any countries having them today could be getting rid of them realistically without the US waiting outside their door, but one day when we will hopefully be living in more peaceful times without imperialists, we should be putting them in the time capsule of history along with the system that made them necessary in the first place.
You don’t read much history? Humans have never lived in widespread peace for any length of time. We have evidence of violence between groups of humans well back into the Stone Age. We are not a species prone to peace.
Not sure why you have a snarky tone about it, but there definitely have been times in human history that were not using war as a means of carving out resources and spheres of influence. Comparing tribes fighting to today’s reasons for war is pretty pointless, and so is defining a immutable “human nature”. If anything, the nature of humans is to change their nature.