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> Sure, but if you get in a car you put other people at risk. Last I checked, car wrecks aren't self-replicating, mutating, exponential-growth deadly diseases.
by titzer 6y ago
> Sure, but if you get in a car you put other people at risk.
Last I checked, car wrecks aren't self-replicating, mutating, exponential-growth deadly diseases.
- renewiltord 6y agoAnd so? HIV/AIDS is a self-replicating, mutating, exponential-growth deadly disease and there is a non-zero probability that you carry the virus right now. But I'm not going to ask you to stop having sex. It still boils down to total risk vs threshold. After all, breathing exposes us to atmospheric-CO2-driven climate change risk which has a small probability of being an extinction-level event.
- titzer 6y agoYou can't give AIDs to people by being in the same room with them. Stop trying to reason using bad analogies. You keep coming to bad conclusions.
- renewiltord 6y agoAh, but it's not an analogy. Each time I comment I narrow the scope of your opposition. That is progress. Already you have shrunk it significantly, with each comment yielding more modifiers that diminish the space you cover. With sufficient effort, I could constrain it to the size of a pea, and then we will both be faced with the fact that situations that applying so many restrictive modifiers is akin to adding epicycles. Then it will be obvious that my original statement is correct: it is about aggregate risk. But perhaps that is best left as an exercise for the reader.