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Shoe Horn

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24. You seem to jump from us being the only nation waging this kind of war...

Reply to Old and In the Way (Reply #8)

Tue Dec 20, 2011, 10:16 AM

Dec 2011

...to everyone having this tech and 'peace for all' with only robots waging war on each other.

What gives me the most pause, personally, is the thought that one day our enemies will have this 'kill without consequence' ability... and use it on us.

Likewise, when discussing murder or assaults in fiction and in general, most people find it easier to imagine being the killer than the killed. A blind spot, to say the least.

Anyways...

Maybe I misread your posts. In which case, sorry.

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