meta-contrarian: “what is to be feared is a super-lethal disease escaping containment & killing many more millions than the normal flu or traffic death toll”.
Meh. Mankind survived the mad cow, the SARS, the bird flu and the swine flu hardly scathed; why should it be different this time around?
human deaths are not irrelevant; a million deaths != no deaths.
pandemics are existential threats, which can drive species extinct; I trust you understand why ‘mad cow, the SARS, the bird flu and the swine flu’ are not counter-arguments to this point.
Meh. Mankind survived the mad cow, the SARS, the bird flu and the swine flu hardly scathed; why should it be different this time around?
human deaths are not irrelevant; a million deaths != no deaths.
pandemics are existential threats, which can drive species extinct; I trust you understand why ‘mad cow, the SARS, the bird flu and the swine flu’ are not counter-arguments to this point.
No, I don’t.
EDIT: Anthropics?