--- cprompt cprompt@tmbg.org wrote:
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 10:53, Gareth Owen wrote:
"Abe Sokolov" abesokolov@hotmail.com writes:
Ray wrote:
"In the cold war era when both sides were
ponting nuclear missiles at the
other it was MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)
:-)"
Yes, and didnt it work?
No it didn't work. There was no nuclear war, but
there were plenty of fair
sizable non-nuclear wars -- the US in Vietnam and
the Russians in Afghanistan
spring to mind -- and the number of civilian
casualties (sorry, "collateral
damage") runs into millions.
Offlist, please.
That was a completely relevant comment. Someone was making an anology to MAD, saying that that helped (and that was their entire argument, pretty much), but that was a bad anology and therefore a bad argument. I don't think any case of supposed mutually assured destruction could be beneficial. LDan
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