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It may have been rational to pre-emptively murder millions of people by dropping nuclear bombs on them? That's quite a claim. We should be eternally thankful th
by blast 5y ago
It may have been rational to pre-emptively murder millions of people by dropping nuclear bombs on them? That's quite a claim. We should be eternally thankful that the political leaders of the time had the good sense not to listen to certain geniuses.
- CamperBob2 5y agoIt's the ultimate trolley problem. Is murdering a million OK if it saves 50 million? Stopping the Soviets early on, in the pre-MAD era, might actually have been worth the cost. We'll never know... and that's probably a good thing because we'd unquestionably be the bad guys in that timeline. People arguing on the Internet would accuse each other of being von Neumann instead of Hitler.