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Eric Bohlman  says:
> Parental anxiety may contribute to this.  One of the effects 
> of the mass media has been to make the world *scary* out of 
> all proportion to the actual level of *danger*. 

That is so true that I just wanted to quote it so it would have been
said twice on the list. It applies to SO many things. Parenting,
government, targets for defence, choice of conveyance, diet, and on and
on.

There is another side to it as well: The REAL dangers tend to be
ignored. Automotive accidents, depression/suicide and fear of
persicution due to sexual preference issues among teens, loss of
freedoms in the name of national security, disease caused by the
unbelievable methods used to lower the cost of food production, and on
and on.

The saddist thing about the human species is the disconnection between
the emotional / re-active sections of the brain and the tiny part that
handles raw statistics, math and reason. RAH once said that humans who
can't do at least calculas are at best animals. I've always like the
quote about the lottery being a tax on people who are bad at math.

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