Friday, October 11, 2013
Alfred would understand
The Nobel wackos have done something bizarre this year. Normally the Peace Prize is awarded to the most loyal servant of Stalin, the most effective mass murderer, the most unimaginably crazy psychopathic alien. This time the committee has accidentally followed the will of Alfred Nobel explicitly and literally. Nobel regretted inventing dynamite and wanted to insure that people wouldn't use weapons to make war. Nerve gas was a weapon Nobel would have understood.
Of course even Nobel's original purpose was backwards. The plain and simple fact is that big weapons do prevent some kinds of war. When a government has a weapon that its internal and external enemies can't match, and when the gov't has shown a willingness to use the weapon, its enemies won't attack. This mainly prevents internal rebellions, but nevertheless it prevents some death and destruction that would occur otherwise.
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