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Originally Posted by willravel
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DK, no one in the world is totally responsible with any weapon. It's unreasonable to believe that anarchy via armament is a viable solution. MAD is not viable equilibrium and if you don't believe me look at how militarism and politics has evolved since everyone got the bomb. Imagine MAD not just involving every nuclear-capable nation, but every member of the population.
Anarchy only works when there is one person; one man with a gun. 2 men with guns is adversarial. 300 million with guns? Think about it. |
I won't threadjack beyond this, but If you wanted to start another thread I think a compelling case could be made that MAD was/is an extremely effective deterent to large scale conflict.