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The UK arms trade |
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01/01/01 (18 review reads) |
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Advantages: none
Disadvantages: many, until war is over
where do you want to go today?
This is a brief exercise in vision logic; bear with me ...Back in the sixties, the idea of the Internet was born. Originally it was a tool for the cold war machine, and yet now the web has extended to become a global phenomenon.
IF the governments of the world are developing technology that has yet to become public property, as the motor vehicle has for instance, THEN its seems reasonable to assume that the latest developments will eventually make their way onto the global 'marketplace'.
IF UFOs exist, as a kind of secret research and development exercise; advanced engineering that has been developed with a massive defence budget, THEN it follows that incredibly fast, or even time ignorant machines, could one day become common property. Why not TODAY? Once space is transcended in an instant then boundaries defined by distance and geography will simply drop away. Think of all the good we could do, as one world united in Love. Of course, IF these marvellous machines do NOT yet exist, THEN I believe that anything that can be imagined WILL be created, with LOVE.
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- 13/01/01 arizeon, you make a good point there. However I think you were maybe going a bit overboard in your examples, although such advances as the aeroplane and helicopter were hugely influenced through the tension which has always been present in the world which warrants such advances so one can always 'stay ahead', more and more recently the military advances slipping into civilian markets have been smaller devices, night vision equipment for example, something the military have enjoyed for two decades whilst only being available for civilians for the last ten (really the last few years widespread), and never really affordable or practical for the many.
At present the main 'wonderful' military advances are coming in the form of weapon precision/guidance equipment (the Russian SA-300 LRSAM and British Meteor LRAAM missiles' guidance systems making good examples). They stories of american bases in the middle of the desert researching weird technologies the rest of the world are unaware of is a pile of. Whenever a nation so much as suspects a wonderful technological advance they are quick to brag, public interest is vital in getting such projects off the ground (money),the americans did it with their SDI defence, designed to shoot ICBMs in space, and it has since been proven a waste. However the answer to your question is the unfortunate reality that the MoD can afford to buy any scientific breakthrough before the market, get operational effectiveness from it, and then give it away to civilians once that is strategically safe or they really need the cash. It wouldn't work the other way round, with Dixons supplying armies, and public use for such advances are usually different, aircraft for example, and must be adjusted accordingly which takes time, for example the aeroplane and helicopter have been modified to carry large amounts of peole rather than militarily effective.
Unfor tunately I can't give the op a VU since you really dodge round the issue, you judge the morality of weapons trading as a whole, not the british role in such an activity as is the topic.
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- 05/01/01 thanatoszane, craig's point was that it is not beneficial to research things that can and inherently will kill fellow humans although the technology needs to be advanced for the better, peaceful uses. i think anyway.
craig, did u realise u have written all your opinions on my machines????? and dont you think you are a bit vague for the more 'normal' dooyooers.
try and make it clear for people as you have not had a very useful rating except mine and thats because i was with you when you wrote it and had the advantage of hearing it from your own mouth.
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- 01/01/01 You say that arms research will benefit us by increasing the technology available to normal people. Then contradict yourself at the end... err.... |
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