Click here for an earlier exploration of issues arising when companies, supervising agencies and society weigh costs and benefits of actions that pose big, but low - probability, risks. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
Instead, we rely more on abstract reasoning — weighing costs and benefits, for example — to choose between right and wrong. (discovermagazine.com)
That leaves open the debate about costs and benefits, which is a policy debate framed more by values than science. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)