----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Brazee" <howard at brazee.net> To: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 12:00 PM Subject: Re: Defender always wins? (Was: Re: on contradictions and s > On 02/11/2005 11:10:33 AM, Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) wrote: > > > This is the doctrine of moral equivilence, and it is invalid. > > There are objective differences between nations that indicate how > > trustworthy they are with nuclear weaponry. Eliminating all > > nuclear weapons is not possible (since we would retain the > > knowledge to produce more). Giving every nation-state a nuclear > > weapon would result in annihilation, since inevitably those > > weapons would be used. > > Eventually weapons with similar destructive abilities will be cheap and > available. One function of SF is to explore how we will or won't be > prepared for such. > > What happens when a lowely Teckla acquires a Great Weapon? > > > -- The same thing that will happen when an Eaterner gets one. . . . . wait a minute. . . Jeff