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Re: [OM] Nathan's PAD 14/7/2016: two Americans in France

Subject: Re: [OM] Nathan's PAD 14/7/2016: two Americans in France
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 16:58:46 -0700
On 7/15/2016 4:31 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
Someone let me know when it's safe to come out.

The greater existential question may be when it's safe not to go out.

Those folks who have the time, interest, and sometimes funding, to study such things, opine that those of us living in the first world live in by far the safest place and time in recorded history.

The % likelihood of any of us being killed or injured in terrorist attacks or 
urban crime is infinitesimally small.

It as with the supposedly great danger of a child being abducted by a stranger on the way to or from school, where they are at much greater risk of being killed in a car crash if their parents drive them. Both risks are small, but abduction much, much the smaller.

There is always risk, that's life. Being driven to avoid living fully by fear of really insignificant dangers is the larger risk.

F. D. R. Moose

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