[extropy-chat] Re: The Force of Human Freedom

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Olga Bourlin <fauxever at sprynet.com> wrote:

> From: "Amara Graps" <Amara.Graps at ifsi.rm.cnr.it>
> >
> > Do you recognize seige mentality, Greg?  It steals from your
> > life. I don't understand how any life-loving person can accept
> > living their life looking over their shoulder every minute. It
> > makes you old very fast.
> 
> Yes, it's true that this siege mentality is starting to take hold. 
> There is  a commercial I've been seeing lately - designed to be
> helpful to parents. It counsels those parents to "explain what to
> do in the case of a terror attack."  Some of the dialogue "suggests"
> having the kids go to a neighbor's house and what all.
> 
> The fact is, shouldn't parents who are away at work or for any other
> reason ALREADY have a plan in place ... in case they get an aneurysm
> while they're away, or have a car accident, or are delayed in
> traffic?  Having a plan in place for all these things and more that
> could happen in the course of a day - and so much more likely than
> a "terrorist attack" for criminy's sake - wouldn't parents ALREADY
> have a plan in place.  Why much the "terrorist" business?  What
> would be so different?

Olga is exactly right here. There is a distinct difference between
'planning' and 'worrying'. When you have a plan for a contingency, you
generally worry less about that event happening, because you know you
are prepared to handle it. 

The media makes its fear-mongering work because so few people today are
prepared for contingencies. Those that are generally don't worry so
much, but get weird looks from  people they know who AREN'T prepared,
get called 'survivalists' and other epithets. What is wrong with
wanting to survive extreme events? That is what evolution is about,
isn't it, being one of those that don't get exterminated?

Whether its preparing for family health crises, crime, tornadoes,
hurricanes, nuclear attack, or terrorism, socialist-corrupted
elections, etc... the goal is the same: living through events, not
becoming a statistic, enabling your family to get through things. For
the same reason you don't get a cryonics contract without having a
financial plan.

=====
Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


		
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