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To: D. Long who wrote (78136)10/16/2004 3:03:37 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 793843
 
The fact that a certain intentionally caused risk has a small actual risk of harm doesn't matter - the creation of the risk is morally bankrupt and intolerable.

There are lots of intentionally caused (immoral) risks that we don't feel compelled to obliterate, only to mitigate, to reduce to a manageable or, dare I say, nuisance level. Whether the risk is happenstance, like lightning strikes, or a function of immoral intent, like inventory shrinkage, we expend our energy to defeat it proportional to the damage it does and the cost of mitigation.

I understand your reaction. Risks that derive from immoral acts are repugnant and harder to accept, but cost effectiveness still rules, IMO. The marginal value of eliminating that last immoral act is likely prohibitive.
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