In response to Aaron Corvin’s Jan. 26 “Strictly Business” column, he quotes from Jose Saramago’s book “Blindness”: ” … if, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.”
Corvin then notes the need to consider the consequences of the proposed oil terminal; it is a rational process, as long as it does not leave us paralyzed by our fears.
Anne Burton
VANCOUVER
