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Comment author: Lumifer 01 October 2015 03:05:00PM 0 points [-]

Obviously this is not a likely extinction event, but I believe it is still worth considerable resources to reduce its probability.

The second part of that sentence oh so does not follow from the first part.

Comment author: tut 02 October 2015 09:41:08AM 0 points [-]

That's why they are separated by the word "but". If I were to say "it rained yesterday, but today it looks like it will be sunny", would you object that "sun today doesn't follow from rain yesterday"?

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