But he soon realised his assumption was incorrect. There was quite a difference between knowledge and belief. He found it difficult to alert the community because many leaders did not believe the content of his report. And it is not obvious that if people had been alerted they themselves would have believed it, and would have acted accordingly.
Interesting that you chose this paragraph, as I read it also on the paper version.
ReplyDeleteIf people were made aware, maybe some would have tried to escape, some more would have gotten away than had they not been aware. .
Maybe maybe - but it didn't happen
ReplyDeletehe is not restricting his argument to "but it didn't happen". He is saying "if... then" ; however if.....then is not necessarily the way he envisages it might have been.
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