Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-vision.CDN Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!ubc-vision!majka From: majka@ubc-vision.CDN (Marc Majka) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Peace at any price Message-ID: <767@ubc-vision.CDN> Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 11:14:46 EST Article-I.D.: ubc-visi.767 Posted: Wed Dec 19 11:14:46 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Dec-84 15:42:55 EST Organization: UBC Computational Vision Lab, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 19 > Yes, we ( homo sapiens ) certainly are a bloodthirsty bunch. Unfortunately, > this is something that members of the peace-at-any-price school of thinking > ( especially those advocating *unilateral* nuclear disarmament ) either > don't realize or tend to ignore. > > J.B. Robinson The sentiment that Jim expresses here bothers me greatly. I hope that he hasn't been misinterpreting my reasons for calling for ANY kind of nuclear disarmament, unilateral, bilateral, or multilateral. I do not advocate "peace at any price". This would be a blindingly ignorant point of view. The problem with the present level of nuclear armament is the price of a war fought with these weapons. The price of that war could well be the destruction of all life on earth. It is THAT price that I am unwilling to pay. The price of peace based on disarmament is a pittance in comparison. ----- Marc Majka