[color:"orange"]Nuclear arms. Do we really need them? Will we even ever use them? Looking at the wars raging around the globe have they even helped? [/color]
Anti-Thesis:
Need? Who “needs” nuclear weapons? Who “needs” artillery, tanks, machine guns for that matter? Human intellect, philosophical awareness and ethical values have long outgrown the need for weapons, especially so nuclear weapons.
Why? Because they will not be used ever again. What could anybody gain from using nuclear weapons? The global consequences would also affect the user himself, radioactive pollution of air and water will not stop at borders, resources in and on the ground will no longer be available for decades.
In addition to these practical issues, the user would be morally damned by the rest of the world, be isolated, disrespected and condemned – which, in today’s global inter-dependencies, will mean his economical doom.
And because everybody knows that, it does not help to prevent aggressions, genocides, wars of the conventional nature – nobody fears nuclear weapons are going to be used against him. Therefore they may as well be trashed, since this will not make a difference.
In times of crisis it is of the utmost importance not to lose your head (Marie Antoinette)
