Braddock wrote:
lowing wrote:
CameronPoe wrote:
They're just one rung on a ladder starting with fists, sticks and stones and ending with the fusion bomb and beyond. I wouldn't single them out as a 'great' or pivotal invention.
I am in no way insinuating a positive invention, but none stand out as a greater influential invention in human history, less the fuckin' wheel I suppose. If you wanna replace weapons for guns OK, but sticks and stnes and fists were not inventions.
The point is that the gun is just one of a long line of inventions that have fulfilled the same purpose. If guns were top of the pecking order than Hiroshima and Nagasaki wouldn't have been such significant events. Nuclear bomb has been far more significant, it's what keeps countries like the US and Russia top of the food pyramid.
Well my point was, ya can't count to 1000 without first counting 1, guns pretty much started it all. Guns provided the necessity for more powerful guns, which provided the necessity for even more powerful guns, leading up to the nukes. It all had a beginning, and sticks and stones and fists were not inventions.