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Comment by rayiner

Can't see the difference between setting off dry-ice bombs in your back yard versus an airport? That's nothing to be proud of! It's a sign of the inability to relate emotionally to other people, not clear-headed rationality.

People aren't afraid of things in descending order of the probability of those things happening. Otherwise people would be a lot more afraid of cars and a lot less afraid of murders, etc. That's a characteristic of peoples' emotional makeup that policymakers have to deal with, just as aerospace engineers have to deal with gravity or friction or other things that can be inconvenient.

parent rayiner 13 years ago

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