Humans have been dicks, but few ever have reach in their communications. Now the entire world is inner connected. This is kind of like saying people have always had rocks to throw, so nuclear weapons aren't anything new.

Highlighting the difference between rocks and nuclear weapons makes a good analogy, but my favourite example is from the "harmless supernova fallacy":

https://arbital.com/p/harmless_supernova/

in particular the "Precedented, therefore harmless" variant.