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                                             February  12, 2013


                                           You get a lot of interesting
     A circular definition                 responses when you go against
     of significance:                      the Great Story of the day.

     That which we care                         But this dramatic event is
     about is that which                        so dramatic!  This *upsets*
     we care about.                             people, the psychic trauma
                                                alone makes this a terrible
                                                problem.

                                                There's an implicit notion
                                                that the great emotional
                                                impact outweighs any
                                                estimate going strictly by
                                                the numbers--

                                                The emotional cause must
                                                be a big deal because it's
                                                so emotional--



               When the TMI nuclear power plant was in
               the news (once the anti-nuclear
               activists got people into a panic about
               it) some people argued that this state
               of panic is an argument against building
               nuclear plants.

                   Burning down the house,
                   and arresting the homeless.





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