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From: robertsb@ttidcb.UUCP (Robin Roberts)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: The real issue about nuclear weapons
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Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 12:15:47 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 10 12:15:47 1984
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Reply-To: robertsb@ttidcb.UUCP (Robin Roberts)
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>================
> ... Baloney. Humanity has survived calamities equal or greater 
>( relatively ) than a nuclear war and will I'm sure survive far more in the
>future....

>Until then I'm afraid I can not take the anti-nuke types seriously because I
>don't think they take reality seriously.
>-- 

>    Robin D. Roberts      
>================
>Please give an example of a catastrophe greater than Nuclear Winter
>that humanity has survived (even relatively).  And don't weasel out of it by
>claiming WWII was a nuclear war because the USA dropped its whole
>nuclear arsenal in that war.  We are talking about the possible
>elimination of animal life from the world, here, and the certain
>elimination of civilization.

>Who is it that should take reality seriously?
>-- 

>Martin Taylor
>{allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt
>{uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsrgv!dciem!mmt

You should pay more attention to reality than irrational slogans.

Examples of worst catastrophes that humans have survived:
	The last Ice Age.

But that is not the point of the article that Mr Taylor so easily ignores.
The point is that weapons aren't significant. Nuclear devices introduce NO
fundamentally new form of suffering to mankind that we haven't already 
experienced. The peoples of sub-Saharan Africa are today suffering from what
would probably kill more people after a world-wide nuclear war than the blast
effects and radiation that form the basis of most irrational fears. And the
disruption of economy and agriculture that causes famine certainly wasn't 
introduced by nuclear weapons. 

WWII DID bring death, famine and maiming injuries to probably over 100 million
people and all with conventional human destruction. The bombs of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki are insignificant. 

People who loudly declaim nuclear weapons and ignoring the real issue in favor
of assuaging their upper class guilt with irrationality. 

If they wanted peace as much as they claimed they would fight for it and 
freedom but instead they truly seek superficial causes with slogans they can
comprehend. Peace requires an investment of time in understanding not a $2.00
bumper sticker.
-- 

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