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Originally Posted by leebase
I am confident that people smart enough to be here don't need to be told it's a bad thing to stare into the sun.
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Originally Posted by leebase
And yet -- I'm supposed to be concerned that they DO need to be told not to stare into the sun?
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For your first point, I lack your confidence. I've seen too many smart people do very dumb things over the years to be able to believe that very intelligent people will show the common sense of a watermelon.
As for your second point, take a look at the news around the time of a solar eclipse and notice the number of people who do not heed the warnings about damage to their eyes. We do not need someone who read your post and vaguely remembers it saying that it is okay to stare into the sun for 5 minutes.
Ghod alone knows that the equally mindless twaddle coming from the anti-vaxxers seems to find a home in what passes for some people's minds.