(I know you’re trying to educate the vox populi on relative risk, but likewise I try to do the same by illustrating that comparison of costs requires full accounting of the seen and unseen.)
Source date (UTC): 2018-01-16 11:52:52 UTC
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@sapinker Steven, That reasoning is an instance of false equivalency of costs. A disease that kills even 100k will not escalate to interfere with the velocity of cooperation (externalities) – nor be curable. While terrorism can both escalate and be cured.
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@curtdoolittle
@sapinker Steven, That reasoning is an instance of false equivalency of costs. A disease that kills even 100k will not escalate to interfere with the velocity of cooperation (externalities) – nor be curable. While terrorism can both escalate and be cured.
Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/953224319815045120
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