Taking metaphors way too literally voids logical analysis. Who cares if a baby can pull a trigger? The point was that future events can change past patterns. Just because an event has not occurred, doesn't mean it won't occur, which is what you are saying about nuclear weapons.
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If it is the killing potential, religion has killed more people that all the nuclear weapons ever dropped, so it is not the biggest killer.
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"Potential" is about
future events.
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| the main threat of nukes is some human deciding to commit mass genocide |
Well, do guns kill people, or do people kill people? That's your opinion to have. I would argue that having guns around increases the potential for a person to take another person's life. It also makes it easier to kill more people faster.
It was never feasable to kill 6 billion people before nuclear weapons were invented.