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 Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
If a mission statement is enough for you to trust that someone is not going to misuse WMD's, that's a lower bar than what I envision.
[EDIT] Perhaps a bit of morning snark in there. A mission statement of why someone wants the WMD and some statement of the intent of ownership and intended usage should certainly be a part of the licensing and whatnot.[/EDIT]
The answer to "why" is the presumption of innocence coupled with equality in treatment of all humans under human laws.
You're letting your silly axioms force you into absurd positions. No one has or will ever have a reason to individually own a nuclear weapon. Even if you want to argue some crazy edge case, I'll simply point out that it'd be such an edge case that the regime necessary to train, evaluate, and regulate individuals' ownership of nuclear weapons would be so wasteful that it simply makes more sense to just not allow it.
I'm afraid that if we can't get passed this, we're stuck at a standstill.
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