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PamW

(1,825 posts)
27. One could say...
Fri Dec 20, 2013, 12:15 PM
Dec 2013

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


One more nuclear energy mishap and you can write nuclear energy off as history madokie Dec 2013 #1
Here is an interactive map showing population around nuclear plants kristopher Dec 2013 #3
Population INCREASES near nuclear power plants. PamW Dec 2013 #4
So we have your vote kristopher Dec 2013 #6
kristopher's DESPERATION! PamW Dec 2013 #8
OK kristopher Dec 2013 #10
Pretty PUNY mushroom cloud. PamW Dec 2013 #14
Why do people move there? For jobs! Starboard Tack Dec 2013 #42
I just looked randomly at three madokie Dec 2013 #7
100% WRONG!! AGAIN!! PamW Dec 2013 #2
If you don't calm down you're going to have a heart attack madokie Dec 2013 #5
I'm NOT upset!! PamW Dec 2013 #9
You coulda' fooled me madokie Dec 2013 #13
NOT at ALL!!! PamW Dec 2013 #18
You think you could get by with talking to me like this in person madokie Dec 2013 #21
Why is it any way inappropriate? PamW Dec 2013 #26
BALONEY!!! PamW Dec 2013 #11
I don't give a damn if you're Jesus Christ or Gawd himself madokie Dec 2013 #15
Why would there be anything wrong with it??? PamW Dec 2013 #19
You just don't get it do you? madokie Dec 2013 #23
PamGreg isn't upset kristopher Dec 2013 #12
I wonder the same think madokie Dec 2013 #16
kristopher's retreat... PamW Dec 2013 #22
I don't feel sure I understand the question phantom power Dec 2013 #17
I was wondering the same thing NickB79 Dec 2013 #20
You have your 'clarification' kristopher Dec 2013 #25
One could say... PamW Dec 2013 #27
You're making a personal attack to avoid an uncomfortable question kristopher Dec 2013 #28
They may have been the most gungho... PamW Dec 2013 #31
Anyone familiar with near misses like Davis Besse knows that we've just been lucky. kristopher Dec 2013 #32
100% WRONG!! AGAIN!! PamW Dec 2013 #35
Right.That football sized hole in Davis Besse's reactor head is something the Japanese did. kristopher Dec 2013 #37
How does that relate.....?????? PamW Dec 2013 #38
You didn't, in fact, offer any clarification NickB79 Dec 2013 #33
What would happen to our investment and our plan to move away from carbon? kristopher Dec 2013 #24
OK, I think I see... phantom power Dec 2013 #30
Seriously? You are disputing the fact that prevailing winds saved Tokyo? kristopher Dec 2013 #34
Mathematical ILLITERACY at play PamW Dec 2013 #36
More like either illiteracy or deliberate misdirection on your part kristopher Dec 2013 #40
You don't understand sample sizes??? PamW Dec 2013 #43
That isn't relevant at all to your attempt at data trimming ... kristopher Dec 2013 #44
'Shoot the messenger' is THE go to strategy the nuclear industry uses against any and all critics. kristopher Dec 2013 #47
The consequences are clear enough. 2013 is going to be the worst year for accumulation of... NNadir Dec 2013 #29
So one needs to be a misanthrope to hold nuclear energy dear cprise Dec 2013 #39
Um...um...um... NNadir Dec 2013 #41
Why on earth would a smart guy like you have expected "this time" to be different? GliderGuider Dec 2013 #45
Go on NNadir, listen to GG... Join the dark side. n/t cprise Dec 2013 #46
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