Reply #30: I'll repeat it again

[SpoonFed]

> I dismissed a count of a single type of apple as being meaningless in the face of the total number of apples involved

No. Your first line states that they are incomparable amounts, ergo Chornobyl is much worse based on the number of apples. There is no mention of types of apples or colours of apples.

Then you go on to suggest that this method of counting apples to gauge importance is faulty (to which I actually agree, it's overly naive and simplistic but understandable given the general public's understanding of nuclear physics and their desire for pertinent information that has been withheld from them).

It is not a logical argument to say, that tree over there made more apples so it's more important and then say you shouldn't count apples to determine which tree is more important but that you should count apples, oranges, pears, etc to determine that.

Separately they might be valid arguments but when you put them together, they contradict one another.
Anyhow, if you can't see this, I'm not going to bother trying to explain it further in the most simplistic terms.