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If nuclear weapons remain in existence forever then sooner or later they _will_ be used again: either consciously by some govt, as at Hiroshima, or accidentally, or in response to

One lesson that I think is worth learning from all this is how well the general public have accepted extreme & burdensome restrictions on their everyday lives, justified by everyone

This isn't in fact total nonsense, although it's expressed in a confused or misleading way. What "our" political system needs isn't an effective opposition so much as a _sound_ one:

Even common ownership itself is only a means (however necessary) to an end. The end is a society where "the free development of each is the condition for the free