Re: The night my daughter was stabbed - and my liberal instincts died
It should also tell us that people only react when it hits them more directly. If it happened to someone unknown on another neighbourhood, it is no big deal so long as it is not in my neighbourhood. When it happens to someone who I had never seen before and who lives two streets farther away on my neighbourhood, it is bad luck for him if something else. If it happens to my next door neighbour, it is alarming but still not a reason to become paranoid and go hysterical. Let us be rational. After all, statistically speaking, what would be the chances that it happened to me or to my family?
And so it goes..
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accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato–
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–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–
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