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Originally Posted by MSD
Disarmament is a feel-good bullshit gesture, and mutually assured destruction, not idealism or goodwill, is what has kept us from being destroyed. The only surefire way to keep rational actors from using weapons of mass destruction is to ensure that they know there will be an equal or greater retaliation.
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If this were completely true, France and England would still be at war and not merely bumping their nuclear toys into each other during their oceanic bathtime.
But I think I get your point on one end of the spectrum, and it's unfortunate.
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