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posted by [identity profile] heyunyi.livejournal.com at 02:17am on 02/03/2010
Earthquakes do not kill people. Bad building codes, or lax building code enforcement practices, kill people.

That sounds a little extreme. You're arguing that under ideal building code enforcement no one would ever die in an earthquake, ever? Maybe I'm just taking your statement too literally.
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posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 02:26am on 02/03/2010
Let's put it this way: A 7.0 earthquake in Chile would have killed, perhaps, 30 people. (I'm actually being very pessimistic in my death estimate: similarly sized quakes in California kill at most a dozen people, at the smallest none at all.)

In Haiti, it killed 200,000 people.

So I'm willing to write off 30 as "death by unpreventable natural disaster."

The other 199,970 were killed by insufficient building code (a result of poverty and the corruption that goes along with it).

Building codes are important. Requiring that buildings stay up to code is important. Not doing this kills people.

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posted by [identity profile] heyunyi.livejournal.com at 02:46am on 02/03/2010
Ok, as long as you're not denying that earthquakes do kill some people.

Definitely not disagreeing about the building codes though.
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