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"Walter Mitty" <mitticus@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>>>> Actually the argument is exactly the same- it's a better product in its
>>>> application than the alternatives.
>>>
>>> Unlike DDT I haven't seen any proof of this whatsoever.
>>
>>
>> Then you didn't look.  People choose to use asbestos.  They aren't doing 
>> so
>> because it's inferior.
>
> People used to use arsenic to cure headaches too. How stupid are you?
> Drug dealers choose to peddle drugs - does that make it right?




Right isnt't the issue here the question is quality of the product, and the 
fact that people *do* use asbestos means that it is a superior product for 
their uses.




>>> So does smoking and I'm not looking to ban that either.  Eat too many
>>> burgers you're going to die.  Drink too much alcohol you're going to 
>>> die.
>>> Etc, etc etc.  You dont seem to see the difference between a personal
>>> choice (tylonol, smoking, eating too many burgers, drinking too much) 
>>> and
>>> no choice at all (asbestos put in your workplace or home 40 years or 
>>> more
>>> ago which may be damaged, flaking, putting fibres into the air and about
>>> which you personally can do nothing)
>>
>>
>> You don't have a choice about what home you buy?
>>
>> Try dealing with reality now...
>
> Oh. That stupid. Most people dont know what meterials are in their wall
> cavities funny enough.


Easy enough to find out, and home inspection is a standard part of buying a 
house.




>> As a rule international organizations are corrupt and full of shit and 
>> can
>> never be trusted.  If asbestos is a problem why is there no pile of dead 
>> in
>> Canada?   In fact Canada has a greater life expectancy than the US
>> does.
>
>
> Err, because, unlike elephants, they dont all congregate into some
> asbestos graveyard?


Or, in the real world, because incidental exposure isn't a health risk.




> With your logic I could say : if guns are such a problem why arent there
> pile of dead bodies in Somerset, England? Doesn't hold much water does it?



Actually it does, There's no pile of bodies because guns are not a problem.

And *you* have decided to limit the consideration to one small city rather 
than an entire nation.