A Different Set of Conversations
Apr. 7th, 2015 10:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
"We want Iran not to have nuclear weapons precisely because we can't bank on the nature of the regime changing. That's exactly why we don't want to have nuclear weapons. If suddenly Iran transformed itself to Germany or Sweden or France then there would be a different set of conversations about their nuclear infrastructure."
I'm pretty sure that if Iran suddenly turned into Sweden, the different set of conversations that would ensue would no longer be about nuclear infrastructure at all, and would be much more ontological or at least would include some profound social constructivist questions.
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Date: 2015-04-07 05:04 pm (UTC)What I want to know is, who was this addressing? Who was arguing that we can bank on Iran turning into a Germany or Sweden or France?
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Date: 2015-04-07 09:42 pm (UTC)I don't think Netanyahu is actually so detached from reality as to think that Iran is going to magically transform into Sweden, unless he's had some sort of massive psychotic break that has otherwise gone completely unnoticed.
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Date: 2015-04-07 11:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-04-08 01:12 am (UTC)Genetic translation? I really don't see how that applies. Bodily-ascent-to-Heaven-without-death translation? That does raise the interesting question of what happens to the people when a country of 81 million people suddenly turns into a country of 10 million. Do they vanish? Did they ever exist? Are they assumed bodily into some sort of existence outside this physical universe? What about conservation of mass-energy?
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Date: 2015-04-08 01:17 am (UTC)As for the population question, I don't see the problem. Nobody vanishes, groups of 8 (on average) simply become one person. Sure, it's not a 1:1 mapping, but so what?
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Date: 2015-04-12 12:06 pm (UTC)