August West
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 Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:08 pm Post subject: [cam.misc] Re: City Centre lighting - Ricahrdson Candles und |
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From: Dan Sheppard <dans@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Newsgroups: cam.misc
Subject: Re: City Centre lighting - Ricahrdson Candles under threat, will the AJC see the light?
Fevric J Glandules <fevric@invalid.invalid> wrote:
| Quote: | When they've done reducing risk, and then fear of risk, what next?
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The risk of the fear of risk, surely? For example, a police project to
block up alleyways may have no effect on risk, but decrease fear of
risk. However, if there's a report which is published between now and
then saying alleyways are good, there's a chance that the project will
increase the fear of risk. Therefore, they must manage the risk of the
fear of risk increasing, say by phoribiting all dissent.
After that you move onto the fear of the risk of the fear of risk. For
example, someone may worry that such a report comes out, but it
acutally be quite unlikely. However, the worry could lead them to
march onto the campus of research universities and set fire to their
sociology departments just in case.
Of course it won't stop there. The risk of the fear of the risk of the
fear of risk would cause insurance companies to increase the premiums
to University sociology departments, and the fear of the risk of the
fear of the risk of the fear of the risk might dissuade universities
from establishing sociology departments (owing to increased fire
premiums) even if insurance companies wouldn't actually take into
account the possiblity of flame-wielding fearers of reports into
whether blocking alleyways causes crime.
You can carry on, of course, if you wish, but it starts to get a
little silly. Those who fear the risk of the fear of the risk of the
fear of risk of crime might worry that Universities might make such a
move to hard sciences and away from sociology in anticipation of
insurance companies worrying about a mob burning down sociology
departments in case they publish a report which would cause a police
project to block up alleyways increase the fear of an individual of
suffering crime might, for example, petition parliament to enact laws
to prevent Universities from doing so.
But I suspect they'd be better of on stronger medication.
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