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by bell-cot
62 days ago
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I'd have gone with the article's title: > When “Extinct” Volcanoes Reawaken Mostly because the scare quotes point out the real problem - the human propensity toward tragically motivated reasoning. Whether it's flood plains, hurricane-prone shorelines, actually rumbling-and-smoking volcanoes, or other dangers - humans want to believe that some convenient of combination of divine sanction, cool-sounding logic, reassuring stories, and willful ignorance will magically ensure that their wishes will come true. No downsides, no "gotcha's". |
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