RE: 20 dead in Orlando gay club shooting
June 13, 2016 at 3:50 am
(This post was last modified: June 13, 2016 at 3:52 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(June 13, 2016 at 3:40 am)Huggy74 Wrote: Just so we're clear, the death toll is acceptable when the benefits outweigh the risks, correct?
Yes, except in the real world, in most cases there's no way to directly, mathematically compare benefits and risks in any objective way. When human emotions come to play - even statistically small risk of a particularly horrific event can be too much for psychological comfort of the citizens. Just like even a microscopic chance of - say - winning the lottery is enough for large portion of society to consider playing the lottery a worthwhile idea.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
