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Originally Posted by Burninator
I heard a great way to explain this. Let's say one day you wake up and your stomach hurts, so you decide to go to the doctor. Well instead of going to one doctor, you go to a 100 doctors. 90 of them say that you have an ulcer. One says you have the flu, another one says that you have heart burn, another one says you are fine, another one says your arm is broken, etc. Each of the ten are saying something else. Which course of action will you take? Seek treatment for your ulcer? Or wait till the other 10 doctors come around and conclude that it's an ulcer? Chances are by the time the other 10 doctors come around it'll be too late to treat.
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Nice analogy. What you have just basically described is the precautionary principle.