Genetic Variation (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Sunday, September 26, 2010, 00:26 (5152 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

They worked out the forces for splitting an atom in theory before they built the bomb. The KNEW the devastation it would cause, so they built it to prove that they could. They tested the bomb before they used the bomb. At that point, the knew what the bomb would do. They had all of the empirical evidence they could possibly want. So they build a few more and eradicate a few cities for good measure? Just because they CAN? I would definitely like to ask you to go explain the logic of your argument to the residents of Hiroshima or Nagasaki.-The power of nuclear Fission was only a paper-based calculation until the the first bomb was built. You are also reorganizing my argument along your own lines. The GOAL of the Manhattan Project was to build an atomic weapon BEFORE Germany could. To state more explicitly:-The goal WAS a weapon. Oppenheimer was very troubled by this even at the time--but he knew what he was doing. -Once we had the weapon--it was out of the scientist's hands at this point--the policymakers made the decision that using these weapons would end the war more quickly and save more lives over the long-haul than sticking to conventional warfare. -To me, if you're going to win a war, the best response is asymmetric force. That's exactly what happened. The result here was no different than how the invention of gunpowder made swords irrelevant. (For the record, more people have died from gunfire than from Nuclear weapons.) I prefer to see wars won with minimal battles and casualties, but there was no way that was going to happen with a traditional invasion. -When it comes to survival, I'm not ashamed to say that I'm downright Machiavellian, and if the positions were reversed, the Japanese would have done the same thing to us. Lets not forget what they had already done to the Chinese--or our own P.O.W. Ethics and morality go out the door when you have to groups who REALLY want to kill each other. Its a plain fact. I feel empathy for what the survivors have to go through, but it's a tempered empathy. -(I quit being a Buddhist because I could not reconcile pacifism to reality.)

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"