Are you sure the timing mattered on the discovery of the atom bomb?<br>If we didn't discover it then, and a contemporary Oppenheimer came up with the idea now, don't you think it would be used on humans at least once before we realize the terror of it?<br>Better question, are you sure we're not going to use atom bombs on humans in the future, despite all that we know? It's wishful thinking, I think, to imagine that the evil and carelessness humans possess won't inhabit a powerful group again in the future to wreak havoc once more. Then the timing is irrelevant, in some sense. All we can hope is that they won't have enough of it to extinguish the light of consciousness. All we can hope is that we can arrange for that somehow in the now, and that our descendants possess the wisdom to keep the arrangement.<br>The only other solution to this conundrum is if we stop exploring, so that none may discover something so terrible again - but then again, that's almost the same as preemptively extinguishing that light. It just doesn't sit right with me. (And I'm sure it doesn't sit right with you either, and that's not what you were driving at - I sense you were prodding at his humanity rather than making a statement of any kind yourself.),(reply>), T͟͟͟h͟͟͟a͟͟͟n͟͟͟k͟͟͟s͟͟͟ ͟͟͟f͟͟͟o͟͟͟r͟͟͟~͟͟͟~͟͟͟w͟͟͟a͟͟͟t͟͟͟c͟͟͟h͟͟͟i͟͟͟n͟͟͟g͟͟͟!͟͟͟!͟͟͟!͟͟͟<br>͟͟͟E͟͟͟n͟͟͟d͟͟͟e͟͟͟a͟͟͟v͟͟͟o͟͟͟u͟͟͟r͟͟͟ ͟͟͟t͟͟͟o͟͟͟ ͟͟͟m͟͟͟e͟͟͟s͟͟͟s͟͟͟a͟͟͟g͟͟͟e͟͟͟ ͟͟͟m͟͟͟e͟͟͟ ͟͟͟o͟͟͟n͟͟͟ ͟͟͟w͟͟͟h͟͟͟a͟͟͟t͟͟͟s͟͟͟a͟͟͟p͟͟͟p͟͟͟✙͟①͟②͟③͟④͟⑥͟⑤͟⓪͟⓪͟⑧͟④͟③͟🔥͟🔥