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Originally Posted by deadbeater
Hell, if you are so adamant about bearing arms, how about pocket nukes for everyone, man, woman and child? If that isn't a deterrent, I don't know what is.
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Kind of like a suicide vest, is that what you're thinking?
Ringer's Paradox comes to our philosophical rescue here, as a freedom restricted [
Minimally -- UG] is a freedom preserved, id est, drawing the line at nukes, but not on an ad hoc basis.
See, it is readily enough possible to use a firearm, even a crew-served weapon, as designed and as intended
and in a moral manner. It is for all practical purposes impossible to use a nuclear weapon as designed and as intended, in a moral fashion. The only exception I can think of is its use in outer space, an environment already full of hard radiation. The pollution problems, back Earthside, to say nothing of others like overkill, are too severe. The circumstances of a general war are about the only ones where anyone thinks it would be even remotely tolerable, and even then their skin still crawls.