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RE: Nukes: post your imagined scenario of the next war
February 23, 2019 at 1:10 pm
(February 23, 2019 at 10:59 am)Yonadav Wrote: (February 23, 2019 at 10:43 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Quite frankly, the prospect of biological war worries me more than a nuclear exchange.
Boru
I have no respect for that sentence whatsoever. It became a very popular buzz thing to say by dumb people who thought that it sounded intelligent. Being more concerned about biological war than nuclear war is sort of like being more concerned with science fiction than real things. The nuclear bombs actually exist and are proliferating. Biological weapons? Meh. The effective weaponization of them continues to be problematic. And the idea that they could be worse than a nuclear exchange is pretty silly. It's great science fiction to imagine that a weaponized virus can simply be used to infect a few people and then spreads to wipe everyone out. But that's not how diseases work. Sure, as our genetic engineering gets better and better, we might be able to make biological weapons that do formidable things. But we are not really there yet.
In the mean time, nukes are real. Nukes can destroy all life on earth. And trying to sound intelligent by saying that we are more concerned about biological weapons just makes us sound like the dumbest little posers imaginable.
Could you possibly disagree without resorting to insult? Might make for a more productive discussion.
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RE: Nukes: post your imagined scenario of the next war
February 23, 2019 at 2:14 pm
(February 23, 2019 at 1:10 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (February 23, 2019 at 10:59 am)Yonadav Wrote: I have no respect for that sentence whatsoever. It became a very popular buzz thing to say by dumb people who thought that it sounded intelligent. Being more concerned about biological war than nuclear war is sort of like being more concerned with science fiction than real things. The nuclear bombs actually exist and are proliferating. Biological weapons? Meh. The effective weaponization of them continues to be problematic. And the idea that they could be worse than a nuclear exchange is pretty silly. It's great science fiction to imagine that a weaponized virus can simply be used to infect a few people and then spreads to wipe everyone out. But that's not how diseases work. Sure, as our genetic engineering gets better and better, we might be able to make biological weapons that do formidable things. But we are not really there yet.
In the mean time, nukes are real. Nukes can destroy all life on earth. And trying to sound intelligent by saying that we are more concerned about biological weapons just makes us sound like the dumbest little posers imaginable.
Could you possibly disagree without resorting to insult? Might make for a more productive discussion.
Boru
I'm feeling sort of cranky today. I could have worded that with a little less nasty, I guess.
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RE: Nukes: post your imagined scenario of the next war
February 23, 2019 at 4:57 pm
(February 23, 2019 at 2:14 pm)Yonadav Wrote: (February 23, 2019 at 1:10 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Could you possibly disagree without resorting to insult? Might make for a more productive discussion.
Boru
I'm feeling sort of cranky today. I could have worded that with a little less nasty, I guess.
I agree, but I'm not guessing.
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RE: Nukes: post your imagined scenario of the next war
February 24, 2019 at 2:10 pm
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
