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To: Road Walker who wrote (342368)	7/7/2007 12:10:56 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1572219

"Your argument has a nice ring to it but in practice it's just false." What does that have to do with the issue? This is a sound bite issue. Reality and facts don't apply, but speculation and highly theoretical scenarios do. So, the fact that all of the other industrialized countries have managed to pull it off to one extent or another is irrelevant. It can be easily countered because a) Such arguments are reality-based and hence, don't apply. b) If a scenario, no matter how contrived or disconnected from reality can be framed that is shorter and easier to understand than the reality, the shorter argument wins. So this means that a more invasive and riskier procedure will always be chosen because it is more expensive...