I know someone is gonna be like: You can’t build a nuke with only the information, the hard part is getting the [uranium/plutonium (or whatever its calledl]!
Thought Experiment:
Suppose in the future, humans all have an innate ability to summon nuclear bombs by doing a ritual, should instructions on how to do this ritual be legal to disseminate?
Or would you censor it for the safety of everyone? I mean, imagine everyone having a nuke that they can just summon… 👀
So… what say you, fellow fediverse user?
Should this hypothetical “summon-a-nuke” ritual be legal to teach people?
There is a slight difference between a weapon, and a nuke. One doesn’t need a nuke to defend oneself and there is no ‘what if’, imho.
But if you insist that there was a ‘what if’, then I would tell you there would be no humanity left. We’re already happily killing one another, using almost direct descent of stone age tools (a knife or a hammer), for the pettiest reasons (things like money or a bad look, come to mind) not even for imperative needs, like survival. So, the second the average people gets access to nuke power(even more today, seeing how poorly educated they’re and how unable to handle the slightest emotion/contrariety), the entire planet will be blown away, say, because some neighbor dared listening to music too loud (or music one doesn’t appreciate) or because their dog peed on their lawn.
“Yeah, but a single nuke won’t blow the planet away!” Sure. But we will. One nuke after the other in as little time as it takes for enough of us to say ‘they’re the bad guy, they deserve to pay the price, where is my big red button?’ (hint: we’re all the bad guy for someone else, somewhere.)
End of humanity.