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Date: Sat, 9-Feb-85 10:28:26 EST
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>Baloney.  Does it really make sense to worry about possibilities based solely
>...

Baloney to you, Jon. The subject was "Worry" and some people take it to excess.
My message was addressing their phobia of things well beyond them.

Of course you have to consider the relative value of the consequences. 
Your point is well taken, but nuclear war has been calculated by the 
"think tanks" as less likely than your getting squashed in an airplane crash.

> do whatever we can to make sure that it never happens.  - Jon White

What do think people were trying to do when they built the Maginot Line (sp?),
the Great Wall of China?, the League of Nations? What we should do is
KEEP ON TRYING to make sure that it does not happen.

Rick Merrill