"So WHAT if this is worse than Chernobyl? Who says?" [View All]

[PCIntern]

I predict that what follows and the above, will be the new meme: I mean, so what? What do you mean by "worse", right? And does the person who said this pass muster with the new DUers who apparently are proponents of nuclear power anywhere, anyhow? More power to them, as it were, since there's free speech in this country, I thought I'd take a moment and distill their argument down to a few sentences, so they wouldn't have to keep cutting and pasting from other sites where their brethren are spouting the same talking points:

"So it's leaking...my washer sometimes leaks and no one's gotten hurt from it and I could post about 1000 videos of atomic test blasts going off and no one ever died from them, and 27000 people died from the Tsunami, and just b/c your elbow hurts when it rains doesn't mean that this is a problem. Nuclear power never hurt anyone and they know what they're doing. so just because you've seen the movie Godzilla, doesn't make you Mothra, right? And what about those two singing midgets in the other film? If there were really a big problem, they'd be singing away. Furthermore, there's a chart which I can post over and over and over again which shows just how little radiation you're getting with little boxes, actually, teeny-tiny little boxes which, some people say, belie the cumulative effect upon your fast-reproducing cells, but you can't name one person who died from civilian radiation poisoning in the whole history of the known Universe. Can you? Just one. See, we know that you aren't' sure if Aunt Minnie's stomach cancer of rapid onset following her exposure to the little puff of gas at Three Mile Island was due to that...you can't prove it any more than you can really prove that your entire family's history of heart disease, lung cancer, and death in their 60's was due to the multiple packs of cigarettes which they smoked every day. Which leads me to the next point: there's radiation all around us! So even if you were to have a mutated cell from radiation, you can't prove that it was the radiation from the utility company's reactor core which melted down and was spewing neutrons, radioactive material including plutonium, and other hot stuff into the atmosphere where it can rain down upon you and your children. If you can't prove it on a message board, it does not exist."


(All of this from MY perspective is :sarcasm: squared.... just sayin' for those who are ready to jump onto me b/c they didn't 'get it' at first - like the folk who thought that I was actually glued to CNN and MSNBCLOCKUP for real information just because I mentioned them in my other posts.)

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And that's how we're going to have to listen to this now for months on end...