Since using nukes like that is the level of thing where ruthless country like China absolutely would come for the culprit and their family. Since “you might not care about your life anymore old man, but we are pretty sure you care about your children and grand children”.
Brutal? Yes. Morally right? No. Morally right to pretend you would do the whole time, but you wouldn’t actually do it? Absolutely, yes.
Brutal? Yes. Morally right? No. Morally right to pretend you would do the whole time, but you wouldn’t actually do it? Absolutely, yes.
Once the nukes start flying, morally right becomes less of a concern.
Yes, but it’s also of no use once the nukes have been deployed. Then it’s just spite, which is understandable, but way less helpful.
At this scale it wouldn’t be literally the end of the world, but it would be terrible for everyone.
Yeah, though tbh, I gotta assume the next person will either need no incentive not to, or won’t have heard of what happened the last time