>In 1962 Russell played a public role in the Cuban Missile Crisis: in an exchange of telegrams with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev assured him that the Soviet government would not be reckless.[146] Russell sent this telegram to President Kennedy:
>YOUR ACTION DESPERATE. THREAT TO HUMAN SURVIVAL. NO CONCEIVABLE JUSTIFICATION. CIVILIZED MAN CONDEMNS IT. WE WILL NOT HAVE MASS MURDER. ULTIMATUM MEANS WAR... END THIS MADNESS.[147]
What did he mean by this?
>>9855974
Your actions are desperate. What you are doing is a threat to the survival of the human race and can't be justified. For a civilized society mass murder is abhorrent. There'll be a war if you don't desist from your actions. Please stop.
>>9855974
Don't drop nukes because it would kill a lot of people and killing is bad.
Khrushchev was such a wuss. If only Stalin had lived forever.
>WW1 comes along
>"War is immoral. I will not take part. I have profound philosophical opinions!"
>become too old be sent to war
>WW2 comes along
>"Eh, I guess some wars can be justified."
I don't see this as a moral failure but don't you faggots ever come over here again claiming that some faggot with some views on morality doesn't need to care about "mere practice"
this reminds me of Chomsky's claim that JFK being assassinated was a great event for international security
>>9855974
He was a poofish weakling who couldn't handle a few sprinkles of nuclear fallout in his tea.