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Re: too beautiful not to share


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:58:12 -0400

On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:52:28 PDT, Blue Boar said:

Assuming that selling them is wrong, and that using them to kill is
wrong, then 1 weapon that kills 1,000 is worse, unless the owner is also
1000 times less likely to use that one big weapon than the small weapons.

Given the number of AK-47s in the world, and the number that get used, and the
number of people killed in said usages, and the number of nuclear warheads in
the world, and the number that have been used, it's obvious that over the last
50 years, more people have been killed by AK-47s and similar than by nuclear
warheads.  So morally, it's far from "obvious" that a WMD is automatically
"worse"....

Or was that supposed to be rhetorical?

Yes.  

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