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You're not following the logic because you're using a global perspective, while I'm using a local perspective, based on self-interest. I'm not arguing for or a

• pdonis 13y ago
  I'm using a local perspective, based on self-interest. And I'm saying that this local perspective (which I understand might not be yours, you might just be trying to articulate the perspective of the NIMBY folks) is flawed, because it doesn't treat equal impacts on self-interest equally. It protests against nuclear plants, while not protesting at all against coal plants that have a greater impact on the same person's self-interest, simply because the impact of the coal plant is "diffuse": it pollutes their lungs over time, all the time, instead of bringing some probability of being in a Fukushima zone, but the total impact on expected years of life (or expected quality of life) for that person is still greater for the coal plant. I understand that this perspective is common, but that doesn't make it right.