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RE: pstd
I have a fundamental question that may, or may not, be important the to the
life expectancy of this thread. Do slogans cause PTSD? If not, what are we
talking about? If they do, how come we are all not driving the same kind of
car, or all eating at McDonald's today?
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
E-mail: jenday1@email.msn.com (H)
-----Original Message-----
From: BLHamrick@AOL.COM [mailto:BLHamrick@AOL.COM]
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 11:04 PM
To: sandyfl@EARTHLINK.NET; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Re: pstd
In a message dated 03/11/2002 9:47:03 PM Pacific Standard Time,
sandyfl@EARTHLINK.NET writes:
. . .
Here's where I disagree:
If we recognize PTSD as a legitimate physical/mental insult to humans (and,
I think we do), and we compensate for it via our courts (or insurance where
available), then we should (for our own good, and in the interest of
maintaining some integrity in our judicial system) be faulting the right
parties for causing the trauma.
If the trauma is not borne of any physical insult by the initiating event
(i.e., there was no actual threat of detectable physical harm or death from
the radiation release at TMI), but is borne of the fear generated by
government officials, or the media, or anti-nuclear activists, then those
entities should be the ones targeted in claims for damages resulting from
PTSD. If the media, or anti-nuclear groups use hyperbole to garner
attention and support and cause fear and/or panic in the wake, to the extent
that PTSD results, then they should be held accountable.
If I water my lawn every day, and my neighbor (a hydrophobic) thinks that I
am damaging the environment by watering my lawn, and his/her fears are fed
by anti-hydro fringe groups, and a media that is sympathetic to the
anti-hydro agenda, because of the great ratings those stories generate, then
on the day when
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