So owning indiscriminate killing devices isn’t a war crime until they’re actively used?

I need to reiterate. Two bombs killed anywhere from 150,000 to nearly a quarter million people. Who do you think those people were? These aren’t targeted devices, and they’ve only gotten more powerful since they were first dropped 80 years ago.

Yeah, we use them to protect ourselves now. We keep it, we don’t touch it, and it’s on standby to back us up.

However, Putin invading Ukraine was seen as “unthinkable”, regardless of what you think of the conflict there. Trump starting a war with Iran was far from a smart decision, and yet it happened anyway. We may have sanity from our leaders not to press the button now should we acquire a nuke, but what of when someone without sanity comes into power? We create the same cycle that caused us to procure those weapons to begin with, and the arms race continues until suddenly everybody is killing hundreds of thousands of people at the press of buttons.

That’s not enough justification. Why does the logic come down to “but my guy is better”?

I think it’s naive to think that nuclear weapons are justifiable just because someone else has nuclear weapons.

It starts an arms race and makes the overall situation worse. This type of mindset is literally how we got to this point to begin with. The U.S. built up a stockpile of nukes, to which Russia built one up, to which the U.S. built more in turn, so on, so forth.

So yes, I am of the stance still that no we should not have a nuke. Like I said previously, yes it’s bad we’re in a situation where the U.S. has nukes and we’re left in a position where they’re able to use them and we have nothing to dissuade them.

However, just because someone poisoned the punch doesn’t mean we should poison it more. Franz Ferdinand’s assassination in WWI started a chain of events nobody would have predicted lead to the sheer level of conflict it did. Now imagine that with nuclear weapons being exchanged by small and large countries alike.

Why should we partake in the very activity that got us to this situation to begin with? Just because we have trouble getting the big guys to get rid of them doesn’t mean we should throw our hands in the air, give up, and make more of these things.

I disagree with OP calling it fascism to ban it, but people here are forgetting Monero exists and the valid use cases a cryptocurrency like that can have.

Not every cryptocurrency is a scam or a means to manipulate markets. If I’m in a country where I’m doing something objectively good, but still against the law, then cryptocurrency works if it requires finances to operate. See Sci Hub.

Edit: Why was this top of my homepage, I’m just noticing this post is two months old lol.

Thanks random internet stranger! I will now proceed to define my entire personality to your whims. Please enlighten me with what true music is!

Lol get a life and be miserable somewhere else.

I don’t have a Google account. I’m avoiding Google in general, but even when I want to make an account for work purposes, it tells me that my phone number has been used too many times for some odd reason.