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The penis mightier

08/12/08 at 06:09:25 pm, by Ed

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Categories: General

I know everybody agrees that the pen is mightier than the sword. Well, let us proceed on that assumption anyway. Would you then also agree that the printing press is mightier than the matchlock gun? Or the typewriter mightier than the Gatling gun? Is the Xerox copier mightier than the AK-47? Would you indeed say that the laser printer mightier than the nuke or the computer mightier than... the bigger nuke?

Well, no. Probably not. The problem is that even with a thousand swords, you couldn't really destroy everything the pen ever made (or break the bonds of love even). On the other hand, if you had a thousand nukes, you'd destroy everything... well, pretty much everything ever.

On the up side, the computer was instrumental in the creation of the nuke, so it sorta cancels itself out. Once everything is destroyed, you'd have to go through the process of making computers again before you could rebuild the nuke. Actually, you'd probably have to go through the process of making the pen again first.

Well, first, for that matter, you'd probably have to go through the process of growing some lungs and leaving the ocean again.

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