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> People have not been harmed to an alarming extent by this event, 160,000 people were displaced and will live in school gyms for the rest of their lives. Most
by throwaway_xx9 11y ago
> People have not been harmed to an alarming extent by this event,
160,000 people were displaced and will live in school gyms for the rest of their lives. Most have lost their livelihoods.
I suggest you talk to them before saying they have "not been harmed."
- guscost 11y agoI'm volunteering to live next to the reactor, because I think the risk of doing so is negligible. I am legally prohibited from doing so, and these people were legally prohibited from staying. If there is in fact no ongoing physical health risk as I am claiming, the harm caused to them is part of the psychological damage from (the cultural context around) nuclear power that I mentioned. It doesn't lessen what these people have been through of course.
- yoha 11y agoThis is a circular argument: 1. people might get harmed by the radiation (true) 2. evacuate them (still arguably sensible) 3. radiations caused harm because people were evacuated