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Early in my career (it began after a discussion in a tutorial during my undergrad) I made a choice to never to use my engineering skills to build weapons. I don
by Jedi72 9y ago
Early in my career (it began after a discussion in a tutorial during my undergrad) I made a choice to never to use my engineering skills to build weapons. I don't believe its a morally justifiable choice in this century. It's not like I have been forced to starve as a result but it did reduce a few opportunities.
- dominotw 9y ago> I don't believe its a morally justifiable choice in this century. Could we say that nuclear(and other) weapons are responsible for the bringing unprecedented world peace to the world?
- glup 9y agoYes, until they don't.
- matt4077 9y agoProbably not. There are many countries not engaging in warfare even though they do not have nuclear weapons. Belgium and the Netherlands, for example, do not possess them, nor is there an obvious mechanism why the US' (or Britain's/France's) nuclear arsenal would discourage a war between these nations. The US, meanwhile, has been engaged in wars almost non-stop since WW2. It's "unprecedented world peace" for for only a select few nations. And, most importantly, the costs of failure have gone up dramatically with the invention of nuclear weapons. The Cuban Missile Crises is just one of several near-catastrophic events. Sooner or later, we will get a madman in a position of power, fall victim to a misunderstanding, or suffer a technical failure. And that'll be that...
- dominotw 9y agohttps://persuademepolitics.com/2016/03/23/now-the-most-peaceful-time-in-world-history/ https://persuademepolitics.com/2016/03/23/now-the-most-peace...
- gspetr 9y agoThere would be nothing to be gained in that war for either country. You don't need territory (at least at a price that steep) and you certainly don't need slave labor in 2018.