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Emotions have plenty of validity for things emotions should decide.

Facts of reality aren't one of them.

One of the things I do for a living is design rockets, a mechanism for combining high explosives in a controlled manner. If I start liking a design because it "feels right," people could die. You can use your instincts for a first cut at things, but after that, you'd better have numbers.

In this particular thread, discussing vaccines, going by emotions could be lethal. The numbers matter more than feelings.

There are many other examples. Another one is nuclear power. Irrational fear has pretty much eliminated a clean and abundant energy source in our country, and stuck us with what we have: coal and natural gas. Data and numbers would show that nobody has died from nuclear power in the U.S. Wish I could say the same about coal and its emissions.

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