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Re: Pushing the button
by aldente » Thu 06 Oct 2005, 00:42:38
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bobcousins', 'F')or example, risk aversion. When the stakes get too high, people don't play even when logically they should.
That touches a string of high vibration..
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Re: Pushing the button
by Doly » Thu 06 Oct 2005, 07:17:59
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bobcousins', '
')I think even a basic analysis shows that something more subtle and sophisticated governs people's behaviour at both a personal and international level. For example, risk aversion. When the stakes get too high, people don't play even when logically they should. The logic of game theory out of RAND said that the US should preemptively nuke USSR while the US had nuclear advantage. Fortunately, successive US presidents dd not follow this advice.
')I think even a basic analysis shows that something more subtle and sophisticated governs people's behaviour at both a personal and international level. For example, risk aversion. When the stakes get too high, people don't play even when logically they should. The logic of game theory out of RAND said that the US should preemptively nuke USSR while the US had nuclear advantage. Fortunately, successive US presidents dd not follow this advice.
That would be a very convincing argument if nukes had never ever been used in history. BUT they have been used. I can accept that, at the time they were used, the risks of radiation were poorly understood, and nowadays a nuke looks like a much riskier option. Still, I cannot rule out completely the possibility that somebody, somewhere, will think that a nuke is the solution to their particular military problem.
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Re: Pushing the button
by medicvet » Sat 08 Oct 2005, 14:06:03
EXACTLY.
The one hope I have is that when (not if) the button is pushed, it will indeed be a 'limited' event.
I was lucky enough to buy threads from my local video store because they were converting most of their stock to dvd, and it is on vhs. If you pm me, I will see about copying it, and mailing it to ya. It is definitely worth watching.
The one hope I have is that when (not if) the button is pushed, it will indeed be a 'limited' event.
I was lucky enough to buy threads from my local video store because they were converting most of their stock to dvd, and it is on vhs. If you pm me, I will see about copying it, and mailing it to ya. It is definitely worth watching.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.-H.G. Wells
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