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Compartmentalize and abstract, keep telling yourself that "if I don't do it, someone else will do it (and they might do it worse than me so it's really best if

by musage 9y ago

Compartmentalize and abstract, keep telling yourself that "if I don't do it, someone else will do it (and they might do it worse than me so it's really best if I do it first)". https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/the-pentagon-is-building-a-self-aware-killer-robot-army-fueled-by-social-media-bd1b55944298 https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/the-pentagon-is-buil... I know the above sounds kinda hyperbolic, but there is a lot of substantiated stuff in there that doesn't need much extrapolation to have the potential to go reeeeeally bad at, well, the flip of a switch, political or otherwise.

mtgx 9y ago
"I'm just following orders."
speedplane 9y ago
In South Korea's case, I think the rationalization is more obvious. It's more like, "we have a maniac at our border itching to invade, our citizens are scared, we need to intimidate them back."
- tgragnato 9y ago
  It probably has more to do with counterintelligence/defence rather than intimidation. [http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/21/asia/north-korea-spies/index.html http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/21/asia/north-korea-spies/ind...] > Spies and human intelligence play a big role in maintaining Kim Jong Un's regime. NK "does not care" about security measures at SK borders. [http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1329421/north-korean-spies-enter-south-korea-posing-defectors-says-lawmaker http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1329421/north-korean-s...] > Nearly half of all North Korean spies arrested in South Korea over the past 10 years entered the country disguised as defectors, said a South Korean lawmaker on Friday. SK "does not need" to engage in reassurance countermeasures because of the population. [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/09/south-korea-normalised-fear-north-korea-missile-kim-jong-un https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/09/south-...] > Residents of South Korea who have friends abroad often share inside jokes about how outsiders are way more alarmed than everyone here, who would actually be wiped out if Kim Jong-un ever ordered a nuclear attack on this country.

by musage 9y ago

mtgx 9y ago

"I'm just following orders."

speedplane 9y ago

In South Korea's case, I think the rationalization is more obvious. It's more like, "we have a maniac at our border itching to invade, our citizens are scared, we need to intimidate them back."

tgragnato 9y ago
It probably has more to do with counterintelligence/defence rather than intimidation. [http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/21/asia/north-korea-spies/index.html http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/21/asia/north-korea-spies/ind...] > Spies and human intelligence play a big role in maintaining Kim Jong Un's regime. NK "does not care" about security measures at SK borders. [http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1329421/north-korean-spies-enter-south-korea-posing-defectors-says-lawmaker http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1329421/north-korean-s...] > Nearly half of all North Korean spies arrested in South Korea over the past 10 years entered the country disguised as defectors, said a South Korean lawmaker on Friday. SK "does not need" to engage in reassurance countermeasures because of the population. [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/09/south-korea-normalised-fear-north-korea-missile-kim-jong-un https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/09/south-...] > Residents of South Korea who have friends abroad often share inside jokes about how outsiders are way more alarmed than everyone here, who would actually be wiped out if Kim Jong-un ever ordered a nuclear attack on this country.