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I was at an academic retreat this weekend. A guy I met told us about his friend in the Navy. Apparently, this navy guy took a psychological test, where one of the questions was: "if during a war the only choices you had were to destroy the entire world or surrender to the enemy, which would you choose?"
He chose surrender.
He got the wrong answer, so he's currently being re-educated.
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Well.....that is the whole point behind nuclear deterrance, the ultimate scorched earth tactic. Make the enemy think that you would rather choose nuclear armmageddon than defeat, and he's a lot less likely to risk conventional war.
Thats why India doesn't wipe Pakistan off the face of the Earth.
The question of whether one "should" choose armageddon is largely academic for those in the US military. Its hard to imagine a scenario where the US would face total military defeat.
Its less academic for those the US might consider invading. Kind ironic.
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Glad to see the old "war isn't about who's right, it's about who's left" axiom is still faithfully being spoonfed to recruits during their... reconditioning.
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Oh, looky another "friend-of-a-friend" spreading a minutely-revised edition of a Clinton-era Urban Legend.
Used to be the question was "are you willing to fire upon American citizens if ordered to?" and the question was being asked of soldiers who were going to serve on a UN peacekeeping force.
Really, we need better UL's.
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I don't need to "think" it. It's a bona-fide UL.
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quote: I don't need to "think" it. It's a bona-fide UL.
When we call something an Urban Legend, we usually have a web page to prove it. I've looked for this, but I haven't found anything even close to it.
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because we all know that, before the advent of webpage 'documentation,' (for lack of a better term) there were no such things as urban legends, right?
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Yep. Actually, I'd like to know why Rob dismisses it as an urban legend (aside for his unexplainable demand to deny anything that looks bad to the US).
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I've heard the peacekeeper one before. Except with Canadian Peacekeepers as the focal. So, I suppose the question was: "Would you hug everyone in the world, or give them money?"
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I had made a post, but be danged if I know where it is... Maybe another forum....
I hadn't heard of the DLAB before I took it either, so this 'question' may actually be on a test that we haven't heard of....
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i met a guy who knew a girl who knew another guy who knew a gypsy who knew a clown who knew another guy who tortured bajorans. and it's real.
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