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Careful. Preemption takes many forms, some of them many would find unpalatable.
by busterarm 7mo ago
Careful. Preemption takes many forms, some of them many would find unpalatable.
- gos9 7mo agoUnpalatable preemption is generally better than reentry vehicles coming down your chimney.
- phkahler 7mo agoThe problem there is you can't prove anything would have come down the chimney if the preemption is successful, so people will still be unhappy.
- busterarm 7mo agoI agree, but some of them are more obvious. Like not giving 100 billion dollars to someone who actively wants to kill you.
- wat10000 7mo agoA thought experiment: would the world be a better place if the US had preemptively attacked the USSR in the 50s or early 60s when it was possible to do without more than “get[ting] our hair mussed” as General Turgidson put it?
- XorNot 7mo agoBut it's also the basic l basis of deterrence and the destabilizing nature of ICBM defense: relying on interceptors presumes the war happens.
- blitzar 7mo agoThose schoolgirls were obviously going to be a problem for the US in the next 20 years.