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What's your point? Are smoking/tobacco regulation and E Coli testing somehow mutually exclusive?
by namuol 8y ago
What's your point? Are smoking/tobacco regulation and E Coli testing somehow mutually exclusive?
- abfan1127 8y agoI assume his point is perspective. There are bigger problems to solve.
- namuol 8y agoUnless you are personally working to stop the inevitable Heat Death of the Universe, there are always bigger problems to solve.
- abfan1127 8y agoI didn't say it was necessarily a good point, just that it was their point.
- code_duck 8y agoThe heat death of the universe poses no risk to me, though. I don’t consider that to be a problem.
- namuol 8y agoClimate change poses no risk to people over 70.
- code_duck 8y agoI don’t think that’s necessarily true, since it could even cause problems during their lifetime (~20 years?). It could cause problems for their children, friends, society, loved ones, and so forth over the next 100 years and that could be construed to be a personal risk. However the heat death of the universe can’t possibly affect with certainty any entity we now know, even the earth itself or solar system. The difference between 10^2 years and 10^100 years is significant enough for me to discount that comparison.
- lostmsu 8y agoEverything that can be done is mutually exclusive to some extent on allocated resources.