RE: I'm not afraid of terrorism, are you?
July 25, 2016 at 2:36 pm
(This post was last modified: July 25, 2016 at 2:40 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I think a larger point that might be made in this, is that in explaining or describing risk -be it terrorists or the hitchhiker- the only way we can maintain our justifications for being so risk adverse in the absence of any statistical risk is by creating a downward spiral of self reenforcing scenarios built atop the assumed truth of the initially inaccurate assessment.
There's nothing but misery and paranoia down this road, perhaps uniquely so when the subject of our spiral actually -have- been victims of what we hope to avoid. It;s like avoiding abuse victims because they have a statistically higher chance to be abused again, and we don't want any abusers coming near us.
There's nothing but misery and paranoia down this road, perhaps uniquely so when the subject of our spiral actually -have- been victims of what we hope to avoid. It;s like avoiding abuse victims because they have a statistically higher chance to be abused again, and we don't want any abusers coming near us.
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