(September 6, 2015 at 2:48 pm)MTL Wrote:(September 6, 2015 at 12:33 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: She is in Canada, not in a nation of barbarians.
Thanks for the compliment towards Canada...however religious extremism is sadly on the upswing, here, as well. :/
But I was mainly thinking of wearing it to my next family gathering.
May as well put the black sheep in a black shirt.
I have never felt safer than when I have been in Canada. The police I saw interacting with people most recently (in Montréal) were so polite, I would want to comply with pretty much anything they wanted just because they were so polite. (I witnessed someone doing something that he was not supposed to do, and the policeman who saw him was incredibly polite to him. It was so striking, my wife and I laugh about it from time to time. I wish I lived in a place where that sort of interaction was normal. It did not hurt anything that the policeman charmingly spoke French, which just added to the overall feel of what was happening.)
The fact that most of the police did not have guns also gave a feeling of safety. If they don't need guns, and they deal with criminals, it must be a pretty safe environment.
I also felt safe in Germany many years ago. There are certain theoretical things I very much like about the U.S. Constitution, with, for example, the rights of free speech, but I never had any problems when traveling to foreign lands. But most of my travel has been to civilized countries, as I have enough of savagery where I am and do not need to travel to experience that. I travel for the purpose of having a different experience from what I have at home.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.