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<blockquote data-quote="Bennett Prescott" data-source="post: 49350" data-attributes="member: 4"><p>Re: running commentary on middle east policy and news.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't accept your straw man argument here, Kristian. Nuclear weapons are not a viable tool of self defense.</p><p></p><p>There is certainly an interesting discussion to be had about whether nuclear proliferation is a good idea, and how much national sovereignty means, but it has nothing to do with man-portable arms. People are overwhelmingly good and go to great lengths not to do what you apparently assume they will when they have access to weapons. Governments, I don't put in the same category... in their relatively small population (there's, what, a couple hundred?) many (most?) of them are constantly at odds with each other, and they threaten entire land masses at a time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bennett Prescott, post: 49350, member: 4"] Re: running commentary on middle east policy and news. I don't accept your straw man argument here, Kristian. Nuclear weapons are not a viable tool of self defense. There is certainly an interesting discussion to be had about whether nuclear proliferation is a good idea, and how much national sovereignty means, but it has nothing to do with man-portable arms. People are overwhelmingly good and go to great lengths not to do what you apparently assume they will when they have access to weapons. Governments, I don't put in the same category... in their relatively small population (there's, what, a couple hundred?) many (most?) of them are constantly at odds with each other, and they threaten entire land masses at a time. [/QUOTE]
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