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From: markg@nvuxf.UUCP (M. Guzdial)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: re: DEFCON 4 (SPOILER)
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Date: Thu, 9-May-85 09:17:45 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  9 09:17:45 1985
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What, exactly, is inaccurate about DEFCON 4?  Admittedly, we're missing
a nuclear winter, and the camp of people about the fort might also be
far-fetched, but the talk of "the disease" isn't really unbelievable at all.

Imagine a community of people cut off from all "civilization" (if any were
left), frightened and paranoid from the devastation that they'd witnessed.
It seems quite reasonable that when faced with ordinary (?) radiation
poisoning, something that none of the community members had probably ever
seen before, they'd assume that this was some sort of "mutant disease" and
treat it as such ("they shot and burned Baby!").  People in this sort of
situation can't be expected to act too rationally.

Mark Guzdial
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