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In <1992Aug26.195222.12179@gasco.com> dlc@gasco.uucp (Darci L. Chapman  x5930) writes:

>> >cbettis@unlinfo.unl.edu (clifford bettis) responds with:
>> For that matter, how about nuke-free bananas?  
>> (Bananas contain potassium, and potassium is one of many elements which,
>> in the naturally occurring mixture of isotopes, are slightly radioactive.
>> People have never lived in a radiation-free environment.)

>So that's why it's okay to add more radiation into our environment?? Because
>we were never radiation free to begin with? Wow, the logic is stunning.

It is really stunning that people are happy to accept one
benefit (bananas) in spite of the risk (40K) when
they shirk from another much smaller risk (radioactivity
in smoke detectors) at the price of much greater benefit
(smoke detection).