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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
COME ON. Torturing individuals or even saying you're going to do it isn't the same thing as MAD during the cold war. This isn't worth wasting much space or time on but for one thing I don't think acquiring nuclear weapons and saying you'll use them in retailation if someone strikes first with nuclear weapons or invades Western Europe with thousands of tanks and millions of soldiers violates the Geneva Convention.
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Yes, I think there are certain moral equivalencies here. WHy isn't there? It is OK to refuse to say whether you will launch hundreds and hundreds of MIRVs at millions and millions of people destroying their lives and threatening to plunge the planet into an environemental catastrophe but it is immorla to refuse state whether or nto you will water board someone if they may know something that would prevent many deaths? I think the moral issues are very similar.
I think you know, btw, that the examples you give have absolutely nothing to do with the ocnept of a first strike.