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> So, for the rational/selfish person, the nuclear threat isn't worth worrying about.

Until you have children and future generations to worry about. Then it suddenly seems quite a bit more pressing that their world could be obliterated at a moment's notice by a small handful of decision makers.

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So what value do you get out of worrying about the nuclear threat, that makes it worth it?

What? I have a son and a wife and I couldn’t care less about nuclear war or climate change or any abstract and distant catastrophe that could face humanity as a whole.

Living in the future is a silly affair. There’s only one moment and it’s the present.

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