orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) (09/16/86)
> > Of *course* survival equipment includes one or more guns. Do you > suppose the people stopping by your shelter will be looking for a > fourth for bridge? (Would be nice, though.) > > I can see Tim Sevener, huddled in a shelter, trying to get a dial > tone on his phone, muttering "I can't seem to get through to the State > Police..." while the bikers are outside grinning. > > Apparently Tim faults Heinlein for not making the aftermath of a > nuclear war grim enough, and then faults him for making it sufficiently > grim that one just might want to keep a weapon handy. > > Michael C. Berch No, Michael, if God forbid, there *is* a nuclear war and somehow I survive the 60 bombs targetted on New York city alone, I will be joining my wife (hoping that she too is still alive) in doing whatever I can to heal the sick and dying, of which I will undoubtedly like the rest of us, eventually be one. Perhaps I will be dodging the bullets of psychopaths with guns who believe in violence to their last breath and last murder. I don't know. I imagine, that like most disasters in history, that the survivors will be shocked, dazed, half-crazy but mostly trying to pick up whatever pieces they can *together* to help humanity survive. I would *intend* to help the survivors but who knows, given that Hiroshima left even trained Doctors wandering in circles, how can any of us tell what we would do? All I know is if you intend to go out and commit murder that I think you are sick and perhaps helplessly poisoned by an obsession with violent solutions to even the most clear signs that violence is foolish and futile. tim sevener whuxn!orb