Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!qumix!amd!fortune!hpda!hplabs!hao!seismo!umcp-cs!mangoe From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Christians and Morality Message-ID: <193@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 00:06:43 EDT Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.193 Posted: Tue Oct 2 00:06:43 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Oct-84 07:02:14 EDT References: <259@whuxl.UUCP> <1117@ihuxi.UUCP> Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 20 A friend of mine once said, "The extreme Christian position is that we should lay down our weapons with the full expectation of being nuked out of existence." Unfortunately, I'm not sure that this really works. In this day and age I think I have to consider the effects on my non-christian neighbors. It's the same problem as with fighting the Nazis in WW II; you either adhere to your holy pacifism, or you allow all those jews to be killed. I agree that simply building a bigger stockpile is has obvious problems. I think that unilateral disarmament is reckless. Between the two extremes, I see no clear path. THe best idea I've come up with is to have the weapons, and never use them, not even in the face of a massive attack. This too has obvious problems, technical and moral. I suspect there is no satisfactory solution. Charley Wingate umcp-cs!mangoe "My wings are like a shield of steel."