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Editor:
Dear creative writer Kaye Patchett:
You are a brilliant person who is obviously very well read and knowledgeable. Except of course for your false quotation from the Bible which should have been, "Thou shalt not murder" instead of "Thou shalt not kill ("Improving weapons inconsistent with positive change," Oct. 30)"
I completely agree with you about the unethical practice of weapons research. Your argument that the University of Arizona (and the United States in general) should stop research that "makes it easier to kill large numbers of people," is incredibly insightful. That way the United States will be defenseless to every hostile nation in the world. It's a brilliant strategy for peace.
Unfortunately we can't go back in time and stop the evil United States from conducting weapons research before World War I and World War II. That way it would have been impossible for the Japanese imperial expansion and the Nazi invasion of Britain to be stopped.
Who knows, we might even have been lucky enough to have lost Hawaii and California to the Japanese. Perhaps we would have seen the Nazi's kill a million more innocent people. Ahh, if we could only go back in time and stop America from improving its weapons...
You're brilliant...at making a creative piece of writing. Your argument is not very realistic at all. The true cause of war isn't weapon's research; it's the fact that people and nations choose to use weapons.
Creighton Anderson
chemical engineering sophomore
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