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Well of course when I said "it doesn't work" I meant that I found the outcome intolerable. That outcome being a majority of users being vulnerable to malicious attacks with a whole host of real world bad consequences for them.

I think that regular people having unrestricted access to enriched plutonium also to have intolerable outcomes. Even if some people would be able to handle the substance safely (both to themselves and others), the ones that don't or can't will cause intolerable outcomes. And yes, this is a 'think of the children' style argument. I don't want the children (or adults) to get radiation sickness. My hot take here is that it would be bad.




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