RE: Does the prospect of nuclear disaster still frighten anyone these days?
March 22, 2015 at 2:14 am
(March 22, 2015 at 1:50 am)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: No, it won't be "fairly quick" except for those in immediate target areas.
That depends on what time-scale you're comparing it to. Radiation poisoning will kill you way faster and possibly with less pain, than a russian gulag, or decades/centuries of occupation and oppression.
Of course - in the aftermath of a nuclear war, there would most likely still be a war going on, because the remnants of humanity would be fighting for what habitable land and resources there would be left. So, no - it's not really a great scenario. Still - at this point I'd be quite "happy" to end my own life (and I probably wouldn't be the only one), since there would be no real chance of things getting back to the way they were before. With conventional WWIII - there would always be the tantalizing hope of "winning", which would make us give up a lot of our humanity in order to survive. Personally - I'd rather die.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
