Agreed. Very eloquently spoken. Then I too shall (endeavor to) speak softly.
I do believe we are in a slightly different wavelength. I'm not on the "cleanup crew". I'm mostly on "prevention", and also "hate to say I told you so but why the hell didn't you listen when things were still preventable?!?" for the kicks. Maybe a tad childish, but I feel learning is mandatory - if not with love and respect, then with pain and humiliation. It's everybody's personal choice.
Fukushima was completely man-made accident. Those responsible for not letting this happen again (yes, AGAIN) did not do their jobs. Accident was not "souteigai", or "unimaginable" as Tepco put it. Their responsibilities were few and light (I would know), and still they failed. This is beyond pathetic, it is criminal.
I encourage freedom for extreme protection, because it is not only human, it also gives focus to the above mentioned fact, and reaction may help prevent further occurrence. Maybe those
things read statistics, without any concept of the underlying simplifications, such as the elevated radiation would be conveniently evenly spread across the prefecture and not in the food chain, as is NOT the reality. Some places are quite normal, whereas others are radiation hot spots capable of creating quite measurable damage. There is no mechanism, no rule to prevent these hot spots being in i.e. school grounds or cattle feeding grounds (nope, did not take those examples out of thin air, as everyone reading newspapers know).
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Originally Posted by Nyororin
The question now isn`t "should we let there be lots of radiation?" but rather "what is best for the people who live in areas that have experienced contamination?"
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Falling into self-righteouss bliss in the cover of statistics and do nothing? I think not. Statistics are not designed to help victims. Explaining paths how radiation gets into one's system helps victims. If they decide it's time to go or time to buy imported food, then letting that happen is the way to help.
No, I have no radiation victims (nor statistics victims) close, and I intend to keep it so. And yes, you used propaganda technique called
Appeal to Authority. I consent it may have been accidental.