Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: SPACE Digest V6 #65 Message-ID: <6266@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Sat, 4-Jan-86 20:13:40 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.6266 Posted: Sat Jan 4 20:13:40 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jan-86 20:13:40 EST References: , <8601031112.AA, <8601032026.AA26913@s1-b.arpa> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 15 > As for how many deaths one would accept, a priori, to achieve a goal, the > answer should be NONE! The only time you accept death as necessary is when you > fight a war... Then there is virtually no acceptable human goal. Even building a large building involves a statistically-predictable number of deaths, from accidents in construction and in supporting industries. I don't know the death toll in workers involved in building facilities for Project Apollo, for example, but I'm sure it was non-trivial. Deaths are inevitable in any large-scale human activity. Private planning estimates often include estimates of the number of deaths involved, although for obvious reasons such numbers are seldom publicized! -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry