Reply #150: the dangers must be prioritized

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One must prioritize. Given ten dangers, all of them dangerous, if you order them from #1 to #10 according to the level of their danger, which end do you worry about first? If you can mitigate all ten, great. It is rational to worry about only those you can do something about. But it is not rational to worry about lesser ones that you cannot do anything about (or are very expensive to mitigate) while ignoring greater ones that you can mitigate more easily or at less expense. It is also irrational to worry about dangers which are below the level of other dangers that are considered statistically benign and whose existence in our lives we have accepted (such as eating bananas or sleeping in the same bed with another person).

I also reiterate that nobody has recognized the importance of half life of the isotopes being mentioned.

Without proper context (which involves prioritization) I find much of the discussion about radiation to be sophistry.