You read stories about WWII and other military decisions which followed this sort of logic and sent millions of people to death or tested chemical weapons on th

You read stories about WWII and other military decisions which followed this sort of logic and sent millions of people to death or tested chemical weapons on their own troops. It was exactly this sort of contrived sort of logic. And you are absolutely right we always have other options available, if we just tune the axioms in our logic to look for those answers. It's funny but we see superheros in comics and movies deal a lot more effectively with these questions then we do some of our leaders. Who frame it in terms of win and lose, and the worst part is when they go against people that use that sort of logic, they are locked into these sorts of zero sum games.