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Originally Posted by Aramike
Yeah, I was wondering about that too...Aren't you creating a fallacy argument? You're suggesting that nuclear weapons would be a poor deterrent if they hadn't actually deterred. That makes no sense.
It's like saying "I'm sure everyone would love their eye-glasses if they didn't cause blindness". Well they didn't cause blindness.
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But the deterrent argument really boils down to faith. While we have not fought wars
with nuclear weapons, nearly every war fought has been
over nuclear weapons. As such, they have not been a dampening force in world conflict.
If the deterrent argument is based on the fact that we have not duplicated the largest war in human history yet, then it uses the same logic as stating that I have a paperclip that repels sharks. I own a paperclip. I don't see any sharks around. Therefore my paperclip repels sharks.