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Originally Posted by atari 2600
Yeah, sort of like Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite and then started the Nobel Foundation.
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Yeah, I have a real fascination with guilt ridden scientists: that sense of intellectual brilliance reaching its logical conclusion in destruction. In that sense Oppenheimer's speech from 1945 remains one of the greatest, and most defining, of the last century.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=n8H7Jibx-c0
What's particularly saddening is how few of those politicians that have themselves been responsible for bringing carnage to the world ever publicly admitted to a similar sense of self-disgust. Their apparant inability to acknowledge those instances where needless death and catastrophy has arisen out of their actions reserves for them a particularly dank corner of hell.
And for that very reason alone, of the three I know which one I'd rather see in charge.
