{"id":4040,"date":"2023-06-23T15:24:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T19:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=4040"},"modified":"2023-06-23T15:24:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T19:24:43","slug":"poem-what-gives-owed-to-mutually-assured-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/23\/poem-what-gives-owed-to-mutually-assured-destruction\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: What Gives? Owed to Mutually Assured Destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"

This poem was inspired by a recent conversation with an apologist for the Cold War doctrine of mutually assured destruction, infamously known as MAD. I am not a fan of so-called “necessary evil”; if evil is necessary, then it is not a choice, and therefore outside of ethics, which is founded on moral agency. MAD is a classic example of sociopathic amoral reasoning, which, of coarse, is immoral. In more practical terms, good ethics is more about giving than taking, so…<\/p>\n

What Gives?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Concerning
\nMutually assured destruction
\nHe proffered
\n\u201cYou gotta give the devil his doo\u201d
\nToo witch I replied
\nI\u2019m knot sure
\nI\u2019m as familiar
\nOf the contractual obligations
\nWith the devil
\nAnd his parently
\nInescapable doo
\nOf guns too ahead
\nAs might be
\nAfar right
\nNecessi-state
\nDoing what
\nIt takes
\nStriking me
\nSurely others
\nThe left
\nUn-stated
\nWhat gives?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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