WC> Please advise the downside of the polio vaccine.

mr> Look, I was making a generalization in good faith. I'm
mr> certain that we can bring up any number of specific cases
mr> to which there is an apparent lack of validity to the
mr> generalization in your estimation but another person
mr> perhaps has had occasion to appreciate the negative
mr> consequences.

If you're unwilling to support or defend the gross generalization,
I'm not afraid to.  }:-}  Every scientific advancement has a down
side if only because the Universe _is_ a zero-sum environment.
Entrophy demands it.  The printing press, the move from hunting
and gathering to agriculture, the concoction of the concept of
"justice" and the legal system -- and lawyers -- which result...

Even love has a downside when the love is not returned or when
it's rejected outright.

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