[extropy-chat] my country, right or wrong

[Neil H.]

On 12/15/05, Technotranscendence <neptune at superlink.net> wrote:
>
> Nope.  You move to private militaries and then you can use technologies
> like nuclear weapons in self-defense.  Your neighbors might have a huge
> army, but that will be a huge burden on them -- as militaries tend to be --
> while your nuclear device keeps them from invading.
>

Hehe...

"He's not our customer!"
-- Wil W. Brierson, in Vernor Vinge's "The Ungoverned"

http://everything2.com/?node=Briefest+apologia+for+the+use+of+nuclear+weapons+in+literature
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ungoverned
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