Environment & Energy
In reply to the discussion: Reason for and a critical question about 2012's 6.9% decline in nuclear production [View all]PamW
(1,825 posts)kristopher state
Those individuals blame the public's response on an irrationality. That is neither here nor there, the fact is the reaction is real and has to be taken into account.
If you want to "make excuses" for the public regardless of rationality; then we could use the public's response to justify racism, sexism, or prejudice in general. We could just say, "The public is reacting this way, so it's OK".
Thank goodness we didn't have moral relativists of that order in the last few decades.
We had people who informed and changed minds; all for the better.
Not people who threw up their hands and said "It's OK".
I really find it ironic that kristopher refers to anything as a "fact".
He's thrown out basically the entire repository of scientific facts, and denied them; all the way from the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics on up.
Then he wants to make pronouncements of "fact" ( Hint: they are "facts" to him. )
PamW