• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    This is kind of the whole argument against nuclear proliferation though. The more bombs that exist, the harder it is to keep it out of the hands of completely unpredictable groups like iran.

    this is true, however, the argument for nuclear proliferation would be that lots more countries having nuclear weapons would put countries like iran at a significant risk, since if they were to use them, they would likely be indefinitely obliterated. By several parties.

    but then again, give a man enough time, he will inevitably learn how to build a nuclear bomb, so maybe anti proliferation is bad. When people who want them, are going to get them at all costs anyway.

    It really is just a pandoras box, but i’m definitely not explicitly anti proliferation either. For whatever that’s worth lol.

    also I just want to mention that the swords/guns metaphor really doesn’t work because this is a problem that potentially concerns the security of literally all life on earth.

    i’m aware, it’s an analogy, it’s not meant to be perfectly accurate lol. It gets the point across.