Reply #203: Thank you. [View All]

Like I said, I wrestled with the morals of this thing a long time ago. Being partly responsible for some nukes, (NO ONE is ever soley responsible, it is ALWAYS shared.) made me think about it a good bit. It is one thing to read about nukes, and see films of them. It, for me at least, was something else to have one only inches from me at times. To know that inches from me was the power to destroy an entire city. Well, I'll get off that part of it before it starts to sound like bragging. So I started reading up on the whole thing, the morality of MAD, game theory, so on.

There is a counter arguement to the argument that I gave, and a counter to that and so on.

My conclusions were not arrived at by a simple Listen-to-the-leader-and-don't-ask approach.

My guiding question was: How do you keep the peace in the real world, when being naive means you don't get a second chance?