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The nuclear, chemical and biological horrors that can be unleashed in moments by psychopaths within governments is truly mind boggling ... not to mention the high risk of, whoops, accident and malfunction.
Blind faither optimists like to dismiss such concerns by saying that throughout history, man has worried about The End. And true enough, largely due to religious beliefs, many have.
What they fail to consider though is that it's only been a very, very short period of time that our species has developed and lived with such extinction-ensuring technologies. This is but one of a long list of dire concerns facing civilization when a corporate/state nexus puts War Pigs like Bushco into positions of reckless, profits-over-people power. They themselves rely on that degree of denial: What's the problem? :shrug: It's their mantra.
The upshot of course is that once things get bad enough that it forces more people to wake up and take notice, it serves to mobilize greater action.
So there's my sunny take on this subject ;)
"No age has ever been so self-conscious as ours. At any rate, the quality of journalism the modern age has turned out in the process of its own self-analysis already overflows our archives and, were it not that most of it is doomed to perish, would be a dull burden to hand down to our descendants. The task still goes on, as it must, for the last word has not been spoken, and modern man seems even further from understanding himself than when he first began to question his own identity. Of documentation of external facts we have had enough and to spare, more than the squirrel-like scholars will ever be able to piece together into a single whole, enough to keep the busy popularizers spouting in bright-eyed knowledgeability the rest of their days; but of the inner facts-of what goes on at the center where the forces of our fate first announce themselves-we are still pretty much in ignorance, and most of the contemporary world is caught up in an unconscious and gigantic conspiracy to run away from these facts. Hence the necessity of returning to a subject that only appears to be well worn. With civilization, as with individuals, the outer fact is often merely the explosion resulting from accumulated inner tension, the signs of which were plentifully present, though none of the persons concerned chose to heed them."
~ William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
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