• plyth@feddit.org
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    2 hours ago

    you don’t really want to let even one through

    But you don’t really mind either.

    People have risked more for less.

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      I don’t know that people have ever risked millions of lives like that as would be the case here.

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        1 hour ago

        Nobody knew if the atmosphere would burn when the first bomb was tested.

        The US did some maneuvers, including the Cuba crisis, that could have triggered nuclear war.

        Global warming puts humanity and nature as we know it at an existential risk.

        The housing crisis could have led to the collapse of the world economy which would have risked huge famines.

        WW2

        Keeping the risks of smoking or soft drinks secret.

        Outsourcing pharmaceutical production lines to China.