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Just look at those goalposts go. Whee!
by JasonFruit 5y ago
Just look at those goalposts go. Whee!
- InGoodFaith 5y agoI understand your earlier point of military wars not exactly being rational - but: Is it really moving the goalposts to say that comparing the economic impact spread over decades isn't the same as one experienced relatively instantaneously? Or the risk of retaliation from a nuclear power isn't comparable to guerilla warfare? Moving goalposts or not, it just doesn't seem to be an apt comparison to gauge military rationality.
- johncolanduoni 5y agoYou’re the one who moved them the other direction by bringing up Hiroshima in relation to contemporary nuclear war where all weapons in play would be thermonuclear (and there would be more than two).
- LogonType10 5y ago>countries aren't rational, because Taliban