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"Parable of the broken window", except instead of preventing the kid from throwing the rocks, they hired a someone to catch the rocks midair.
by likium 6mo ago
"Parable of the broken window", except instead of preventing the kid from throwing the rocks, they hired a someone to catch the rocks midair.
- WorldPeas 6mo agothough in this case it seems "the rocks were coming from inside the building"
- bartread 6mo agoWhich sounds insane until you realise that you’ve just described in outline something very like the iron dome missile defence system, which actually exists in reality. (And of course you’ll get no argument from me that it’s insane that such things need to exist at all, but such is the world we live in.)