[extropy-chat] The Consensus

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Alfio Puglisi <puglisi at arcetri.astro.it> wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Alex Ramonsky wrote:
> 
> >don't have to.  :  )
> >I have always wondered this...why do smart people hang out in
> >dangerous areas?? I know with 100% certainty that I won't be
> >attacked in my local
> >city centre at night because I don't go there. Ever.
> 
> It doesn't sound like the best option to me. I go to my local city
> centre at night very often, but I'm not attacked. No one is. Girls
> walk alone at 3am without a second thought. 

Alex, being a denizen of Britain, which is under assault nationwide by
the criminal class liberated by victim disarmament laws, suffers from a
popular notion that criminals are the product of society and that they
deserve "a fair go" in getting away with their crimes.

> If one wants to avoid
> dangers associated with criminals, there are two options:
> 
> - hide in your house and set up a good alarm system.
> - live in a low crime area
> 
> Somehow, I prefer the second.

I live in a very low crime area, where any woman can visit our city
center, or even jog along an unlit jogging path without fear of
assault, because criminals know that they cannot trust that such women
will not themselves be armed, and they therefore seek out more fruitful
pastures where women are prevented from defending themselves, i.e. not
in this state. Our crime rates are among the lowest in the world.

=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                       - Gen. John Stark
"Fascists are objectively pro-pacifist..."
                                       - Mike Lorrey
Do not label me, I am an ism of one...
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