You must be an old person.

Anyone under 25 is entitled to EVERYTHING, they're entitled to it FOREVER and they're entitled to it for FREE.

Who gives a fuck what they want? If companies like Google put the interests of their precious snowflakes of employees above their customers, they will die a horrible, deserved death.

It will be one of those fights where they both manage to win.

By that argument, you can defend any action whatsoever. Hitler and Stalin didn't kill millions of people for the sake of it, or out of sadism, they did it as part of their political programs.

1. "You're".

2. No death has ever been attributed to smoking directly (except where someone's fallen asleep smoking and burned their house down). No death from liver failure has ever been attributed directly to excess alcohol consumption. All you can say is that, on average, if you smoke and drink you're x times more likely to die early.

Same with cancers caused by radiation and poisonours radioactive materials being introduced into the biosphere.

A really big earthquake and tsunami are not, and were never unimaginable.

Earthquakes and tsunamis may not be accurately predictable, but they're not like a meteorite hitting the Earth and wiping out an entire continent or Godzilla coming out of the sea and eating your power plant..

The Japanese tsunami was bigger than the designers had ever expected, but it wasn't (since it happened) impossible. Even if it was the biggest earthquake and tsunami in recorded human history (which I don't believe it was), it was still a genuine possibility.

To do that you would need to nationalise the whole electricity system, and have something like the CEGB in Britain in the 1970s. But, of course, the free market does everything better, especially when the fucking government pay all their bills and absolve them from any fucking liability too.

The reason that people confuse nuclear weapons with nuclear power is because historically they're absolutely fucking inter-connected. Plus, governments after WW2 (at least here in the UK) simply lied about the purpose of nuclear power stations, which were basically there as a cover for atomic weapons development. Oh look, just like Iran and North Korea, the evil bastards.

No, the problem with nuclear power is that it is government funded and backed by unlimited government guarantees and they still let for-profit corporations run the fucking things anyway and take all the short term profits without having to underwrite the long term risks.

As a non North American can I just point out that the US is responsible for a whole genre of music that makes Celine Dion and Justin Bieber look like Kurt Cobain?

I refer, of course, to Cuntry & Western.

Maybe they all just grew up and got a girlfriend?

I don't think that quite comes under the definition of "fresh" somehow.

Morphine is addictive too. Being addicted to something that saves your life is not necessarily a bad thing.

And not everyone who smokes dies of lung cancer, and not everyone who drinks heavily dies of liver disease. These things are averages, there will always be outliers when it comes to human beings.