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Reminds me of the old idea of putting US nuke launch codes inside a person who would be part of the president's entourage, so that if the president wanted to la
by ertian 6y ago
Reminds me of the old idea of putting US nuke launch codes inside a person who would be part of the president's entourage, so that if the president wanted to launch a nuclear attack he would have to start by literally murdering and cutting open a person he was close to. It was explicitly intended as a disincentive.
When the guy who proposed the idea, Roger Fisher, was asked who the hell would ever volunteer to be the nuclear pinata, he volunteered to do it himself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Fisher_(academic)#Preventing_nuclear_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Fisher_(academic)#Preven...
- grayfaced 6y agoI love it and I'm sure there would be plenty of willing people. What I think is misguided is the assumption that the president would do the deed personally. "SGT Thompson, bring me the codes, I'll be in the next room" Still chilling, but not personally traumatic.
- Johnny555 6y agoI'd never heard of that before and it's a genius idea -- too easy to dissociate yourself from a million deaths on the other side of the planet, but if the first step is killing a single person with your own hands, that puts it all in perspective.