(July 24, 2016 at 4:18 am)abaris Wrote:(July 24, 2016 at 3:39 am)ignoramus Wrote: I'm sure they weren't terrorised! Maybe mildly inconvenienced by a semi driving over them?
You know, there's a difference between being in a horrible situation and fearing it to happen on an abstract level. If I did, I probably wouldn't leave my house anymore. Truth is, I don't reflect on what could happen. If it happens, I have to deal with it then. But I wouldn't be better prepared if my mind was constantly fixated on all the things that could possibly endanger my life.
Reminds me of the old duck and cover bullshit, the US government spewed back in the 50ies. Wouldn't have saved a single life and only contributed to the mass hysteria of being in immanent danger of being nuked.
I'm old enough to be amongst the last of the generations having had to do that, in my first-grade classroom. It horrified me when the teacher explained why, that we're doing this because war.4
You're right, living in fear is no life at all -- it's really a living death, in a way. I don't worry about being struck by lightning or the tornadoes which occasionally pass this way, either. When my number's up, there it is.
