This fail-safe is only an actual net gain if you would rather die than see the aftermath of nuclear war, but don't want to go through all the trouble of committing suicide manually.
The reasoning is fairly solid, though - looking back at the past, the lack of nuclear war is weaker evidence for human peacefulness if you grew up in Washington DC.
This fail-safe is only an actual net gain if you would rather die than see the aftermath of nuclear war.
Well, not really if you see branching in MW the way that most people seem to.
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