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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 4135542" data-attributes="member: 2525">I think that misses the point a bit.I am saying that a small increase in the chance that something bad will happen to the GSL, lets say a 1% increase, is reason for Clark to be concerned.  But it's not necessarily reason for Clark's customers to be concerned.  Clark said if he is worried, everyone should be.  I dispute that.  Clark should be worried about all sorts of things that shouldn't worry the rest of us, because a small increase in the chance of something bad happening to his company is a reason for a small business owner to be concerned, but is not reason for their customers to be concerned (unless it actually happens, or is a large increase in the odds it will happen).You do have a stake.  But, I was more discussing odds, and the impact of those odds.  Small chance of something bad happening should have more impact on the owners of small businesses that the bad thing happens to.  It's big chance of something bad happening that should have an impact on customers, and you cannot measure "is it a big chance" by "a small business owner directly impacted by the threat is concerned".  The small business owner is probably spooked by all sorts of things all the time that we don't even hear about, because they never come to be reality.  If "Clark is spooked, therefore we all should be" were a good way to look at things, odds are we would all be spooked almost every month about something <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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