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Originally Posted by SVOboy
I'd much rather live next to a nuclear plant than a coal plant, but at the same time, I don't really support building new reactors and instead favour heavy investment in alternative solutions (solar, wind, etc), so I voted "don't care."
However, I think the poll question is pretty clearly flawed, as it's not really asking anything. It's really just saying, would a nuclear plant v. no change be a good thing, which I think is a pretty silly question since that's not ever going to be the case. It's going to be a nuclear plant v some other source, some type of industry or manufacturing, etc.
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The poll is valid even though it's not the question you might have preferred.
The question asked is a simple one: would
you want to live near a nuclear plant? The poll topic is actually that of NIMBY. Often people are in favor of something as long as they don't have to live near it. There seems to be an element of hypocrisy in the NIMBY position, and that's the topic as it was framed.