The Two Kinds of Empathy (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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The Prisoner's Dilemma
I think that's true, but it also runs a little bit against the sort of precautionary principle we talked about, which is I nobody wants World War three and that is the risk behind a lot of this. If there's even a small chance that these people I'm coming to have a peaceful meeting with will come with guns,. It behooves me to bring guns myself. We both come in unarmed. But it might be tempting for you to bring in a gun because if I'm unarmed, you get everything. And maybe in afters, you know, if there's if there's any doubt, there's no doubt. That's the problem with foreign policy, maybe.
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