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by viccis 181 days ago
Sure but you could just nuke us too, given that the response to a mass civilian death event would be the same. Same reason the US would be foolish to destroy the Three Gorges Dam.
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beeflet 181 days ago
It doesn't need to be a mass civilian death event. They can wait, collect data and kill 90% of our most important soldiers, heads of state, spies and everyone needed to maintain critical sectors of our economy. They could kill everyone who is anti-china. They could kill all the members of one political party (any one) as a false flag and cause a civil war.

Surveillance technology is nessisarially selective, so these "all or nothing" hypotheticals do not apply.

See also "slaughterbots". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU

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viccis 180 days ago
Again, they could just nuke us. Because if they did what you're suggesting, we would absolutely nuke them in response.
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beeflet 178 days ago
How would we know who did it? As I said earlier, it could be a false flag attack triggering a civil war, or a war with another mutual enemy.

China could kill every anti-russian politican with robots, and start a nuclear shootout between the US and Russia.

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