(December 21, 2014 at 3:58 am)mralstoner Wrote:(December 21, 2014 at 3:30 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I'd rather worry about things I can control personally.I find your fatalism disturbing.
It's hardly fatalism. Can I prevent a nuclear strike? Or a solar flare? How about harden infrastructure from same?
I can do those things about as well as I can prevent earth from being struck by a life I extinguishing asteroid.
I'm not going to lose sleep over it. However, I do believe in disaster preparedness, and that's something I am empowered to do.