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how is it pro-nuke to debate how much the bloody things cost?

Give us a figure.

And it is not anti-nuke because the anti-nuke position disputes the validity of cost-benefit analysis.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jul 24th, 2007 at 04:33:59 AM EST
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seems to me that what you call 'cost/benefit analysis' is a frame in which both sides cannot agree to stay, for the simple reason that misery and happiness have no numerical yardstick!

btw, thanks for that archive link, migeru, clicking on it revealed a bunch of brilliant multilogue i had missed, due to the inconvenient truth that there are only 24 hours in a day/night cycle.

i'd very much like to see a collection of deananders' replies bound into a handbook of rational, enlightened rebuttal to the nukedealers' propositioning.

the replies could be prefaced by interview-style one or two-line questions.

i'd love to see her on 'hardtalk' with stephen sackur too.

lotta meta in this discussion, i guess a reaction to not feeling some feelings...

special props to starvid for consistency and restraint, and not resorting to vitriol.

de's compendia iterate perfectly my gut feelings, and enrich my judgement with wisdom, surgical deconstructions and always fearlessly looking at the big picture.

blogging at its finest

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Tue Jul 24th, 2007 at 09:43:50 PM EST
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seems to me that what you call 'cost/benefit analysis' is a frame in which both sides cannot agree to stay

Well, yes, that's my conclusion as you will have read in this thread and the one you refer to.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jul 26th, 2007 at 05:16:15 AM EST
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Both the validity and some of the details.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Fri Jul 27th, 2007 at 05:12:20 AM EST
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