Re: Meeting public demand

["Jerry Cohen" <jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET>]

> Our unquestioning acceptance of many of the commonly accepted but

> mistaken ideas underlying much of the discussion in this thread leads us

> to do imprudent things.  Bill Lipton reads about a little cesium in a

> deer, and, responding instinctively to his hypersensitivity to public

> opinion, casts all caution aside and lunges at the opportunity to name

> the event the latest in his woefully long list of self-inflicted gunshot

> wounds to the nuclear foot.  This is the exact opposite of the the

> dispassionate, measured, and thoughtful analysis that such situations

> deserve.

>

> Thomas Potter





Tom,

    I'm afraid that in public debate, an ounce of passion is worth a

pound of thoughtful analysis.Using logic to persuade a freightened child

that there  is no bogeyman is generally a fruitless exercise. The problem

we need to address is: Given that disassionate, thoughtful analysis is not a

viable option, what course of action should be taken?   Jerry



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