Thats my point. You have, as the definition of “chicken little” goes, “a hysterical or mistaken belief that disaster is” coming from a wildfire if a person lives in a home in 4S.
Thats priceless . . . “convince me.” Yes it is hard to reason with those with “hysterical mistaken beliefs.” Dumbing down of America by a different name.
As far as brining emotion to the debate . . . review all of my posts. Nowhere do I base what I say or the positions I posit on my emotional beliefs, unlike you. I simply point to the reasoned words of experts on the topic. In other words I stick to the facts.
I guess thats the difference in logical reasonling between one who was on a high school debate team and failed to make it to law school and one who graduated cum laude from a top 15 law school and was runner up in the said law school’s Moot Court competition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moot_court
The idiocy of the following “straw man” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man_argument argument you make defies credulity . . . “While the house the house is catching fire, you expect the homeover to be sitting in their living room drenched with water….saying over and over again…..”Shelter-in-place.” These sort of sophomoric comments reveal your level of thought and logic. Nowhere have I suggested such a stupid scenario.
But . . . . if you want a good anecdote on a related topic where a brainless 4S homeowner, stored gas soaked rags in his garage, which subsequently caught on fire, which triggered the sprinkler system, which immediately called the fire department, which when they arrived the sprinkler had already doused the fire and (per fire department) saved the house and resulted only in minor damage . . . . see here:
rsf-fire.org/assets/documents/news/news_releases/2005/100605%20Cayenne%20Creek%20Fire.pdf;
here . . . rsf-fire.org/assets/documents/news/news_releases/2003/Fire%20Sprinkler%20Saves%20Million%20Dollar%20Home.9-18-03.pdf;
and here . . . rsf-fire.org/assets/documents/news/news_releases/2003/Fire%20Sprinkler%20Saves%20Single%20Family%20Home.12-15-03.pdf
I never posited the idoitic act of sitting in your home as the sprinkler goes off but if you want to discuss such foolishness, above is a nearly analagous real event which at least illustrates the effectiveness of the 4S fire safe technologies overcaming even the stupidest and careless of homeowners when it comes to fire safety.
No “raw nerves” here. I am simply amused by the exercise of deconstructing fallacious logic such as yours.
