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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have noticed that whenever someone suggests a solution and the response is, “Why that won’t work because there is always some idiot who will--------.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That reaction makes my point when I say there are a fair number of people who are invested in the belief that the problem cannot be solved. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">No solution will be perfect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consider how many millions more trainmen would have died had the railroads never adopted automatic couplers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was that a pointless exercise because trainmen are still occasionally killed in coupling accidents?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If a safety improvement can reduce the death count from 1000 per year down to 1 per year, does that mean the safety improvement was a failure because one person still got killed? </span></span></span></p>
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