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From: sts@ssc-vax.UUCP (Stanley T Shebs)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: acid rain and morality
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Date: Mon, 5-Sep-83 15:59:02 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  5 15:59:02 1983
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"Property rights to the surrounding air"!?!  How far does that extend?
Do smelters in Ohio own the air in Canada??  Or should the smelter
operators pay the Canadian Indians, since they were there first?
Sorry Tom, your answer is just a bit fantasical to go with the problem.

But let's get more realistic anyway!  Suppose ol' Bud Wiser doesn't
believe that acid rain causes damage, and he has a zillion studies
by various scientists to prove that it's harmless.  Then a government
report comes out stating that acid rain has proved to be dangerous.
What's poor Bud to do?  He's never seen acid rain cause any damage
himself, and now people are claiming that he doesn't know reality!
Can he claim that they don't know what reality is?  Where's the judge
that will decide what the *real* and *absolute* reality is?

					stan the l.h.
					ssc-vax!sts (also utah-cs!shebs)