On 5/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eugen Leitl</b> <<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org">eugen@leitl.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Millions of people die of old age. This is not associated with a highly<br>spectacular destruction of high-profile businesses, and area contamination.<br>
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No. Just with death. Not the photogenic cataclysms of science fiction, but the dreary, banal death of real life.<br>
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Fretting about imaginary catastrophes produces good feelings. Focusing
(directly or indirectly) on the things that are killing people in real
life has a chance of actually producing good results. If we on this
list are going to pride ourselves on being more rational than the
average for the population, let's back that up by taking the second
option.<br>