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> Only a handful of people have died from nuclear. At least if one ignores the hundreds of thousands of people who were directly killed by nuclear weapons.
by freeflight 5y ago
> Only a handful of people have died from nuclear.
At least if one ignores the hundreds of thousands of people who were directly killed by nuclear weapons.
- mlyle 5y agoAre we going to count everyone who's died from skin cancer against solar, and everyone who's died in a hurricane against the wind?
- freeflight 5y agoThe context was nuclear weapon tests, nuclear weapons are designed and built for a purpose, they are man-made we have influence over their existence. While the sun and hurricanes are natural phenomena that we don't really have much influence over nor were they designed for the specific purpose of giving skin cancer or killing people.
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- godelski 5y agoModify mlyle's argument to deaths due to power outages or the danger of state sponsored attacks on power grids. Either way these comparisons are very weird. No one questions how a knife can be used for cooking and is found in most homes yet knives are very dangerous weapons. But also people aren't killing one another with kitchen knives. They're both knives but have different purposes and different designs.