One of the worries, he said, is that as the rain lessens in the next several hours, people will become complacent and feel too at ease in areas where waters may still be rising for several days, getting in cars in areas that could still be dangerous.
"One of the major dangers in democracies is this tendency to adopt a moral stance and give lessens in the name of human rights," he said, "to use what Vaclav Havel called, in his unfortunate phrase, humanitarian bombs on distant countries that do not comply with our ideal.
(You need enough money in the game for it to matter, the profs say. The performance advantage lessens in smaller accounts and all but vanishes in ones below $25,000).
Some healthcare experts, however, worry that this consolidation will raise costs as competition lessens in certain markets.
The advantage thereby granted by the reward difference to the accumulator associated with the higher reward actually builds up over time, although it lessens in a relative sense as time goes on since variability builds up even more quickly initially.
As a child becomes less vulnerable and in need of nurture, the obligation to prioritize her needs lessens in the day-to-day life of the parent, even though it remains significant.
