Reply #25: When I was young...

[LanternWaste]

When I was young, I read impending attacks by the Evil Soviets into just about every news report I watched, plane in the sky, and even number or people walking into or out of a government building. i had allowed my own personal paranoia to color my world view.

As I've gotten older, I realize that for the most part, people simply want to live and love-- even those people in North Korea. And a nuclear attack anywhere in the world (let alone one directed at the U.S.) would deny that life and love to those who value it most.

It's an interesting scenario for cocktail parties and basement pot-party pow-wows (not the Sham-Wow-- two different things... :P ), but for a mind that doesn't salivate over dystopian, post-apocalyptic, rapture-ready scenarios based on badly written, hack-authored science fiction novellas, the probability of NK launching an attack on the U.S. is just a few degrees higher than the possibility that my urine will be completely composed of cheddar cheese tomorrow morning.