MAD at the civilian level...

If communities are safer if everyone has a concealed weapon because no criminal would dare rob a store where everyone else is armed, then why not take it to the next level and introduce Mutually Assured Destruction to that principalas well? I mean, it works on a global scale. only reason we dont fuck with north korea even though they HAVE the ability to produce nukes, yet we concentrate on non-nuclear countries like iraq and iran, is because N.K. has that nice protective bubble a nuke provides a country.

>>17 A society should be honorable and credible enough to have a philantropic effect on the populace. I am not a pacifist (I dislike them, though I hate militarists) but I believe a draft illegitimizes the war effort and the country's culture. My history teacher of two years past was a deserter from Vietnam, and he didn't hate America or tried to indoctrinate us. In fact, he was one of the type of people you would pay money to sit down and have a chat with. Now he's in Bombay making money at some high-end school.