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(My deleted comment said, "We're talking about a rhetorical point about dilution, you know." For those wondering.) I don't think that any reasonable person wo
by SamReidHughes 11y ago
(My deleted comment said, "We're talking about a rhetorical point about dilution, you know." For those wondering.)
I don't think that any reasonable person would take the claim that this was the best way literally. Also, nobody has any obligation to couch their comments to fit your lowest-common-denominator agenda. This is a discussion forum, not a place for slinging propaganda.
- mikeash 11y agoIf it didn't actually mean "best" then you could have cut this whole thing short real fast if you had just said so at the beginning. It's a real fun technique to say something outlandish, let people criticize it, then finally say "nobody would actually take that literally." Certainly you can say what you want. And I can say what I want about what you say. Hyperbole about the "best way" to dispose of nuclear waste being to mix it into elementary school building materials plays right into the hands of anti-nuclear activists. It just reinforces the notion that nuclear power advocates (of which I'd consider myself one) care nothing whatsoever about the dangers.