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Pfft comments on Safety can be dangerous - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: PhilGoetz 07 September 2011 05:24AM

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Comment author: Pfft 07 September 2011 03:51:38PM 0 points [-]

I guess the argument is the same as for the drugs: the evacuation effort should be scaled back until it causes equally many deaths as the hurricane.

Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 07 September 2011 04:16:40PM 5 points [-]

Actually, until the marginal lives lost and saved are equal, which says nothing about the total.