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- From: stead@skadi.CSS.GOV (Richard Stead)
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- Subject: Re: tel:403 492-3713 fax: 403 492-4256 <=
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 22:33:00 GMT
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- In article <56587@dime.cs.umass.edu>, yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
- > In article <51502@seismo.CSS.GOV> stead@skadi.CSS.GOV (Richard Stead) writes:
- > >Radioactive waste is a non-problem. Bury it in Yucca Mt. No biggy. Other
- >
- > Not what the folks in Nevada seem to think. But, hell, why let mere
- > civilians make decisions about their own lives and their own state when
- > there are *experts* who can make these decisions for them?
-
- That's why we live in a Federal Republic. No one state can make a unilateral
- decision that affects the welfare of all states. Your preferences would take
- NIMBY to the logical extreme of anarchy where every individual makes their
- own decisions about everything and screw everyone else.
-
- > >countries have been doing this for awhile in much less stable sites.
- > >It really isn't a problem - where the heck do you think the nuclear fuel
- > >comes from in the first place? It comes out of the ground. I mean,
- >
- > This is really a weak argument.
-
- And I take it that those six words are a really strong argument? What
- is weak about my argument? You clearly have no rebuttal.
-
- > >People love to complain about radioactive waste, but there are no real
- > >problems, other than the people who love to complain. Some people seem
- > >to need something to be afraid of and they latch onto nuclear issues
- > >because they can't understand them.
- >
- > Part of what bothers many people about nuclear power is the zealous
- > shrillness of some of its advocates.
-
- I'm shrill and zealous now? I ask anyone to read my original post and your
- response and determine who is shrill and zealous. It is pretty clear.
- Your ad hominem attack alone ("zealous shrillness") is an example of shrillness.
- Your unfounded fear of nuclear waste, your appeal to "civilians make decisions
- about their own lives" are examples of zealotry. Greenpeace is zealous
- and shrill. I have yet to meet a shrill, zealous nuclear power advocate.
- Regardless, the attitudes of defenders of an argument have nothing to do
- with the truth of the argument. I do not let Greenpeace's zealous
- shrillness cloud my judgement of their opinions. I wait for them to
- provide the basis of their opinions and judge based on that and data from
- other sources.
-
- I am still waiting for the basis of your opinions on nuclear waste.
-
-
- --
- Richard Stead
- Center for Seismic Studies
- Arlington, VA
- stead@seismo.css.gov
-