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Re:Tsar Bomba by thanatos_dem on Sunday August 04, 2019 @09:50PM (#20610396)
Except at this point humans are unquestionably the apex predator. What animals are we going to need nukes for? This is humans fighting humans.

Unless your argument is that there’s a distinction between classes of humans comparable to that between species, which is a... problematic position, so I hope that’s not what you’re claiming.

Re:Tsar Bomba by CapricornNoble on Sunday August 04, 2019 @10:08PM (#20610505)
HN Comment Guidelines: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
Re:Tsar Bomba by thanatos_dem on Monday August 05, 2019 @01:05AM (#20611425)
Yeah, unfortunately the strongest plausible interpretation of that comment is not that great
Re:Tsar Bomba by CapricornNoble on Monday August 05, 2019 @10:02AM (#20614278)
Humanity has spent, what, close to 20,000 years fighting for survival in fairly austere conditions. A proclivity for tool-making, and turning those tools to violent purposes, is practically baked into our DNA. We've had a nuclear weapons-based MAD situation for barely 70 years, which is barely a blink of an eye in comparison to the totality of our existence. To think that our martial instincts would disappear from our species in just a few generations because of our latest destructive innovation is naive folly.

But instead if picking up on that position you instead lept to implications of thinly-veiled racism.....I swear these days people are seeing imaginary hate crimes everywhere.