the virtue of Pascal's wager...........

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the virtue of Pascal's wager...........

Publius — 4/11/2006 3:56:38 PM (archived)

Lies in the fact that addressing the concerns of "global warming" (whatever it might be) falls in the category of couldn't hurt. (See Leo Rosten's Joys of Yiddish for definition.)

There is nothing flat in your gratuitous denial <" to going off half-cocked on the refried socialist solutions usually proposed to "solve" global warming."> In that you present an automatic pejoritive response to any and all "solutions" to global warming.

I have no idea the solutions you reference, but I am sure there are some suggested solutions that have merit and would do no harm if used. I am also sure that multiple approaches will be required to solving what appears to be a complex problem in that even the reality of the "problem" seems to be in contention.

With this in mind, using the approach of Pascal's wager and doing a "baby step" methodology might give us a better concept of the problem. I am curious about what the "refried socialist solutions to solve global warming" might be. Do these also derive from your Sci Fi and Fantasy political doctrine base?

Publius

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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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