We're discussing whether we should be concerned about an asteroid destroying a city being misinterpreted as a nuclear attack. Unless that _something_ is the des

We're discussing whether we should be concerned about an asteroid destroying a city being misinterpreted as a nuclear attack. Unless that _something_ is the destruction of a city by an asteroid, it is quite irrelevant. Perhaps you should google it > Charles Doyle of the University of Georgia, my coauthor on the forthcoming Yale Book of Modern Proverbs, has found that this expression is now commonly applied to economic or diplomatic crises that can be exploited to advance political agendas, but he traced it back at least as far as 1976, when M. F. Weiner wrote an article in the journal Medical Economics entitled “Don’t Waste a Crisis — Your Patient’s or Your Own.” Weiner meant by this that a medical crisis can be used to improve aspects of personality, mental health, or lifestyle. I obviously was not saying you made it up, quite the opposite. I was accusing you of parroting a proverb you thought sounded smart and edgy but never gave any serious thought to, and ridiculing the idea that anyone actually follows this proverb. [0] https://freakonomics.com/2009/08/13/quotes-uncovered-who-said-no-crisis-should-go-to-waste/ https://freakonomics.com/2009/08/13/quotes-uncovered-who-sai...