Re: Responding to Pre-dawn Unannounced Ninja Raids

At 01:10 20/07/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:

>By "you," I have to presume you mean "me." No, I am not at likely to use
>this weapon in a rage against a loved one. Trust me.

This was not intended to suggest how "you" might behave, I don't
know you that well, it would have been less confusing for me to
have used the pronoun "one."  


>It may sound "stupid" to you...I suggest you read up on evolutionary game
>theory. Sometimes one has no choice but to respond to an arms buildup.
>Unilateral disarmament rarely works.

There are surely alternatives to the extremes of unilateral
disarmament and an arms race? For instance, slowing down  the
race? More often than not, it is the US that has upped the ante.
They consistently had more nuclear warheads than the Soviet
Union, new technologies that disrupted the status quo came
generally from the West.
Arun Mehta Phone +91-11-6841172, 6849103 amehta@cpsr.org
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Arun Mehta writes:
> >It may sound "stupid" to you...I suggest you read up on evolutionary game
> >theory. Sometimes one has no choice but to respond to an arms buildup.
> >Unilateral disarmament rarely works.
> 
> There are surely alternatives to the extremes of unilateral
> disarmament and an arms race? For instance, slowing down  the
> race?

Don't ask the question as though it is theoretical. Don't try
answering it as though your personal values have any bearing, because
there is indeed an objective answer here. Try doing some game theory
simulations and see how well unilateral disarmament works.

Oh, and don't give us stuff about how humans are above evolutionary
pressures or nonsense like that, because we aren't any more above such
pressures than we are above the laws of physics.

Perry

> race? More often than not, it is the US that has upped the ante.
> They consistently had more nuclear warheads than the Soviet
> Union, new technologies that disrupted the status quo came
> generally from the West.


   The USA practiced the WWII german approach.... high technology to make 
up for smaller resource base.

The USSR practiced the WWII approach of the Allies.... drown the opponent 
in your production capacity of basic killing machines.

If you are trying to make us believe that the USSR had smaller arsenals 
and lesser numbers of soliers manning the front lines, you are going to 
have to take your proposition to one of those "progressive" forums where 
historical fact is not permitted to get in the way of a good work of 
ideological fiction.

You're two generations too late, old lad..... You should have been a 
writer of encyclopedia articles for the Stalin regime.