Belly35
Posts: 9,716
Nov 19, 2010 10:08am
Paranoid or Cautious
Have we become a paranoid society or over cautious assholes ?
Package on the expressway, traffic backed up for hours, H1M1 that did happen, airport scanner and pat-down but people drive over the borders without getting out of their cars…..
Have we become a paranoid society or over cautious assholes ?
Package on the expressway, traffic backed up for hours, H1M1 that did happen, airport scanner and pat-down but people drive over the borders without getting out of their cars…..
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queencitybuckeye
Posts: 7,117
Nov 19, 2010 10:28am
The entitlement mentality seems to include the right for the world to be 100% safe. It can never be, of course, so we engage in a bunch of "safety theatre", to borrow a term I believe was coined by FFT.
ernest_t_bass
Posts: 24,984
Nov 19, 2010 11:04am
The terrorists have won.
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Nate
Posts: 3,949
Nov 19, 2010 12:00pm
Paranoid and I agree with ETB.
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Con_Alma
Posts: 12,198
Nov 19, 2010 12:06pm
It is possible to be both. It's not strictly either or.