I think this comment elucidates a serious flaw in the prevalent thinking within society: quantifiabilty pervades all thought in our technological world. How is it even reasonable to put a price tag on a weapon that would destroy all forms of life in its wake, not to mention all financial institutions that created it. What it cost is irrelevant? Cost is an absurdity in this context, as it is in most cases. Yet, we seem to quantify most everything around us. However, you do touch upon an important point that does break from that sort of rationality in your point about the fate of that ICBM at the bottom of the ocean. Certainly the decision to leave such a thing at the bottom of the sea for all eternity is another irrational absurdity of our modern times.
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I think this comment elucidates a serious flaw in the prevalent thinking within society: quantifiabilty pervades all thought in our technological world. How is it even reasonable to put a price tag on a weapon that would destroy all forms of life in its wake, not to mention all financial institutions that created it. What it cost is irrelevant? Cost is an absurdity in this context, as it is in most cases. Yet, we seem to quantify most everything around us. However, you do touch upon an important point that does break from that sort of rationality in your point about the fate of that ICBM at the bottom of the ocean. Certainly the decision to leave such a thing at the bottom of the sea for all eternity is another irrational absurdity of our modern times.