"Well Regulated Militia"

[GMDino]

(08-06-2019, 11:33 AM)Nately120 Wrote: This is the stuff that fascinates me about our societal norms regarding fear and danger.  It's reasonably ok for people to have some doomsday-ish preparations and strategies, but if one of my co-workers says he and the family are driving upstate to visit his parents and I say "Have a safe trip, hope you don't get in a fatal accident on the way" I'm being a morbid alarmist and breaking the rules of societal good taste.

Though maybe the plausibility of the car accident is what makes it anathema to speak of...hmm...I suppose we can subtly say such things with "drive safe" and "have a safe trip" we just have to leave it in the hopeful phrasing.

We freely ignore things are more likely to happen (car accident) in order to worry about much less likely but BIG things like meteor strike, tyrants, super volcanoes, etc.  It's human nature.

It's why every mass shooting gets blown up in the news.  The likelihood of it happening to you or me is small compared to the likelyhood you will, say, falling down stairs and breaking our necks.  But the shootings are BIG so they get attention.

That doesn't change my mind about trying to limit them.  Accidents are different than murders in my book.