Apocryphal Account of the Cause of the Deepwater Horizon Platform Failure: Batteries.

[Martin68]

9. Your answer is both arrogant and unhelpful. First of all, I'm not confused in the least. Your assumption

that any disagreement with your assessment is “confused” is pretentious and unwarranted. Your cavalier attitude toward 20,000 deaths is shocking to say the least. You apparently have little regard for human life in general, or an appreciation of the Japanese value on human life. “No one would care?” Declaring that my counter-example is “nonsense" suggests you have an agenda that prevents you from admitting any other view other than your own pre-conceived notions.

You contend that the evacuation ordered and enforced by the Japanese government, and still stringently enforced, was due to "fear and ignorance.” A 2013 WHO report predicts that for populations living in the most affected areas there is a 70% higher risk of developing thyroid cancer for girls exposed as infants (the risk has risen from a lifetime risk of 0.75% to 1.25%), a 7% higher risk of leukemia in males exposed as infants, a 6% higher risk of breast cancer in females exposed as infants and a 4% higher risk, overall, of developing solid cancers for females. I suppose since you consider 20,000 deaths beneath your notice this wouldn’t concern you. But then you have made clear you could care less about a few people suffering and dying from cancer, or thens of thousands being forced to permanently evacuate from their ancestral homes.

You furthermore egregiously misquote me when you write that I said the Deepwater Horizon event wasn't "too bad" because it was at sea. I made no such statement. What I said was that the Fukushima event had a greater and more immediate impact on society than the Deepwater event because it took place on land. It is in fact your views, and vulgar expression of them, that are obscene. If you are serious about persuading people of anything at all, you will need quite a bit of work on your communication skills.

In the end you concede that your assessment is based on a callous calculation that, in your opinion, tens of thousands of lives lost are insignificant - in spite of the fact taht your original post made a big deal about the 11 lives lost in the Deep Horizon event.