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Except at this point humans are unquestionably the apex predator. What animals are we going to need nukes for? This is humans fighting humans. Unless your argu
by thanatos_dem 7y ago
Except at this point humans are unquestionably the apex predator. What animals are we going to need nukes for? This is humans fighting humans.
Unless your argument is that there’s a distinction between classes of humans comparable to that between species, which is a... problematic position, so I hope that’s not what you’re claiming.
- CapricornNoble 7y agoHN Comment Guidelines: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
- thanatos_dem 7y agoYeah, unfortunately the strongest plausible interpretation of that comment is not that great
- CapricornNoble 7y agoHumanity has spent, what, close to 20,000 years fighting for survival in fairly austere conditions. A proclivity for tool-making, and turning those tools to violent purposes, is practically baked into our DNA. We've had a nuclear weapons-based MAD situation for barely 70 years, which is barely a blink of an eye in comparison to the totality of our existence. To think that our martial instincts would disappear from our species in just a few generations because of our latest destructive innovation is naive folly. But instead if picking up on that position you instead lept to implications of thinly-veiled racism.....I swear these days people are seeing imaginary hate crimes everywhere.