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To: Lane3 who wrote (27068)	8/23/2006 5:46:01 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 541326

That wasn't an argument. That was a ranty aside. I thought I had clearly tagged it as such. Yes in your case it was, but the same type of comment is often used as a supposed argument. I just don't think that's the given you made it out to be. I don't think its a given either. I just think the evidence leans in that direction.

To: Lane3 who wrote (27068)	8/24/2006 1:11:16 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 541326

"The problem with a forum on the risks of technology is that while the risks of not using some technology, e.g. computers, are real, it takes imagination to think of them..." yarchive.net And since it takes imagination some people find it hard to refute ideas like "the precautionary principle". This type of thing doesn't just affect discussions of the risks of new technologies, it also affects debates on economic policy, esp. trade policy. People see the destruction of "creative destruction" a lot easier than they see the creation, or the stagnation followed by decline that would happen without "creative destruction".