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What you say is true, but idealists should not give up just because a murderer exists.

While it will not control the murderer, it can and will influence it (violence going 10% down is better than 0%)


>While it will not control the murderer, it can and will influence it (violence going 10% down is better than 0%)

Idealists create worse outcomes than realists and pragmatists.

Violence going down 10% can be worse than it going down 0%, if the difference comes from reducing counter-violence done by the oppressed - and reducing based on the agenda and whims of the big time abusers responsible for a big chunk of the other 90%.

> violence going 10% down is better than 0%

This is also what protection payments look like on paper; surely we can reduce violence much more.

I say: let every country have nukes, or let no country have them. This halfway bullshit is worse than either.

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