"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one" -Einstein
The atomic bomb is the easy way out, if you can really call it easy. It disconnects the hitter from the problem. You don't see the people you'll kill. You don't risk the lives of your soldiers . At the push of a button, the ability to wipe out a nation is possible. Technology and all that it brought has made war a series of attacks from a safer distance. It's not even just the atomic bomb, but also the drone strikes. Hitting a target from afar while you cross your fingers and hope no one else gets hit. The ability to risk the lives of innocent people is now even easier because we have our eyes on the bigger picture. Kind of like what Spock said, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few". But in this case it is not the sacrifice of oneself, but the sacrifice of the innocent people who were probably just at the wrong place at the wrong time.
~ Laila Esa
The atomic bomb is the easy way out, if you can really call it easy. It disconnects the hitter from the problem. You don't see the people you'll kill. You don't risk the lives of your soldiers . At the push of a button, the ability to wipe out a nation is possible. Technology and all that it brought has made war a series of attacks from a safer distance. It's not even just the atomic bomb, but also the drone strikes. Hitting a target from afar while you cross your fingers and hope no one else gets hit. The ability to risk the lives of innocent people is now even easier because we have our eyes on the bigger picture. Kind of like what Spock said, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few". But in this case it is not the sacrifice of oneself, but the sacrifice of the innocent people who were probably just at the wrong place at the wrong time.
~ Laila Esa
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