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My line of reasoning was "it must have been within acceptable ranges of risk because otherwise the species would be extinct or doing something differently," not
by faitswulff 8y ago
My line of reasoning was "it must have been within acceptable ranges of risk because otherwise the species would be extinct or doing something differently," not a pure appeal to tradition. The statistics back this up, hence my mentioning them first.
- mmt 8y agoI think it's a bit extreme to suggest that the standard for an acceptable range of risk is anything that doesn't cause our species to go extinct. We tend to put a greater value on human life than that, even (or especially), traditionally.