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Thread #56350 Message #880609
Posted By: Amos
02-Feb-03 - 10:24 AM
Thread Name: BS: Response to Tragedies
Subject: RE: BS: Response to Tragedies
Saul:
Statistically your perspective is irrefutable, of course.
But in my own mind the death of astronauts is qualitatively a different order of magnitude than the deaths of sales managers, housewives, floor sales specialists, insurance underwriters, electric mandeola stars, sanitation engineering vehicle navigators, taxi-dancers, and advice-column writers.
These people were ASTRONAUTS.
There IS a difference.
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