re: Pascal's wager

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re: Pascal's wager

Tom Brosz — 4/10/2006 8:39:35 PM (archived)

The "Pascal's Wager" analogy falls a bit flat because there are serious negative consequences, economic and otherwise, to going off half-cocked on the refried socialist solutions usually proposed to "solve" global warming.

It doesn't all balance one way.

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An Easy Way to expose concealed Anti-Americanism - gbaikie - 4/8/2006 10:12:20 AM
- Kiddo... - R.L. - 4/9/2006 4:06:44 AM
  - re: Kiddo... - gbaikie - 4/9/2006 7:14:37 AM
    - More "Wow!" - Lindy - 4/9/2006 5:04:51 PM
      - re: More "Wow!" - gbaikie - 4/9/2006 9:41:32 PM
- I am driven to tears.... - Donald - 4/8/2006 1:35:10 PM
  - The fantasy... - Tom Brosz - 4/8/2006 9:05:02 PM
    - You're in fantasy land - Donald - 4/8/2006 9:16:52 PM
      - re: You're in fantasy land - corrected - DOnald - 4/8/2006 9:20:47 PM
        
        Oh, come now. - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/9/2006 4:11:06 AM
        
        It always amazes me... - Donald - 4/9/2006 2:22:22 PM
        
        Oversimplification. - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/10/2006 12:06:58 AM
        
        "Oversimplification of foreign affairs is for spectators and partisans" - Lindy - 4/10/2006 3:22:04 AM
        
        The Russians (& EU exploiters) - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/10/2006 3:56:44 AM
        
        For what it's worth........ - Lindy - 4/12/2006 3:42:47 AM
        
        re: The Russians (& EU exploiters) - Lindy - 4/12/2006 3:34:05 AM
        
        You'll have to excuse me... - Donald - 4/8/2006 9:39:04 PM
  - How terribly kind of you................... - Publius - 4/8/2006 7:39:26 PM
    - re: How terribly kind of you................... - gbaikie - 4/8/2006 10:32:12 PM
      - "actually" no problem....................... - Publius - 4/9/2006 1:34:31 AM
        
        re: "actually" no problem....................... - gbaikie - 4/9/2006 3:00:01 AM
        
        For your questions on global warming try investigating Pascal's wager......... (n/t) - Publius - 4/9/2006 3:59:29 PM
        
        Pascal's wager is silly & shallow- you confirm my faith - gbaikie - 4/9/2006 10:18:13 PM
        
        No. Pascal's wager is pragmatic............. - Publius - 4/10/2006 6:02:26 PM
        
        re: Pascal's wager - Tom Brosz - 4/10/2006 8:39:35 PM
        
        the virtue of Pascal's wager........... - Publius - 4/11/2006 3:56:38 PM
        
        re: the virtue of Pascal's wager........... - Tom Brosz - 4/11/2006 9:30:20 PM
        
        Let me understand this............ - Publius - 4/11/2006 9:38:42 PM
        
        Kyoto is failing in those nations that accepted it. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 4/13/2006 1:21:06 AM
        
        More fantasy - Tom Brosz - 4/9/2006 4:56:09 AM
  - re: I am driven to tears.... - Eric - 4/8/2006 3:29:37 PM
    - I suspect... - Donald - 4/8/2006 3:58:38 PM
- re: An Easy Way to expose concealed Anti-Americanism - Doug Ellison - 4/8/2006 10:14:39 AM
  - re: An Easy Way to expose concealed Anti-Americanism - gbaikie - 4/8/2006 6:35:31 PM
    - America gets the 20th century....arguably the 19th too... ;-) - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/9/2006 3:39:30 AM

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