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When I was growing up, my parents had plenty of things to be afraid of.
Fear of polio was palpable. Cars had no seat belts or air bags, and drum brakes and bias ply tires and all roads were 2-lane and there were pointy things sticking of the dashboard. Faulty furnaces set houses on fire. Blizzards could not be predicted. School sports had cardboard football pads and no batting helmets. Nut houses were minimum security, with goofy people wandering away. Every boy carried a jackknife to school.
The average number of children per year who were abducted by strangers and harmed was less than 100. But it still is. So what are you afraid of?
There was no unemployment insurance, no health insurance. People went bare. No sick pay. Food basicly uninspected, smell it first. No antibiotics. No birth control. no abortions. When your parents get old, you put them in a back room and take care of them and keep them comfortable. at your expense.
So, what are you so afraid of?
Television, Mass Media, Fashion, the Government all make us either insecure of just plain afraid. Or both.
Don't worry. My wife has been bitten by a poisonous snake and by a shark. She's rather proud of that CV. It's not so bad. Like me, she also refuses to fear.
In some ways, Americans are not worried or fearful enough... most haven't saved for their retirement years and instead have racked up tens of thousands of dollars in debt buying material goods that are completely frivolous.
No, Yes, and No. But it's 2009 and my answers are the same right now. I never lock myself in the house any time of day, and I usually don't lock it when I go out. My car keys are out there in the cupholder right now. And I have never known a person who has lived on a street where there was ever a drive by.
Sadly crime will visit your neighborhood sooner or later.
It used to be much the same here, never had to look for the car keys, they were in the ignition. Never locked the house, home or away.
I remember one year we couldn't find a house key to lock the house when going on a two week vacation. So we left it unlocked and nothing happened in the two weeks we were gone.
But the gangs, illegal immigrants, the economy, the deterioration of our society, the belief that no one is responsible for their own actions, etc. has change that. No place is an island and to different degrees, everyplace will suffer the ills of our deteriorating society.
It applies to everyone who made the choice to live in a safe neighborhood. Why didn't you?
The neighborhood was and for the most part still safe other than the police in my neighbors backyard one day in case the neighbor next to them tried to go out the back door.
Or a couple of months ago when 10 cop cars were at another new neighbors house..
Or the car set on fire three houses down and the owner even admitted it was gang related..
Neighborhoods seem to change...and not always for the better...
Sadly crime will visit your neighborhood sooner or later.
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That's not what people fear. It's just a convenient rationalization for something deeper than that. A shopper who refuses to make eye contact with another shopper, a person who uses a napkin to open the rest room door, a person who won't let their kids play in the yard unsupervised, a person who throws away food the day after the best-by date, a person who won't let their son carry a jackknife in his pocket, that is not prudent precaution against a rising crime rate. That is a top-heavy complex of pathological phobias.
As unpopular as this answer will sound.....society used to fear less because they trusted God more. Whether people think that trust was unfounded or silly is their own opinion. However, it seemed to work as well for the people back in the day as it works for people today. I can truly say that I live a life without fear of anything. Again, could be a misguided security, but it sure does work.
As unpopular as this answer will sound.....society used to fear less because they trusted God more. Whether people think that trust was unfounded or silly is their own opinion. However, it seemed to work as well for the people back in the day as it works for people today. I can truly say that I live a life without fear of anything. Again, could be a misguided security, but it sure does work.
That depends on the fear...going to hell or having your car stolen from you driveway.
As unpopular as this answer will sound.....society used to fear less because they trusted God more. Whether people think that trust was unfounded or silly is their own opinion. However, it seemed to work as well for the people back in the day as it works for people today. I can truly say that I live a life without fear of anything. Again, could be a misguided security, but it sure does work.
It would be interesting if there were a survey, as to whether nonbelievers or believers are more straitjacketed in their lifestyle by everyday fears. By your account, it would be the atheists, but I doubt if that could be borne out. I would expect the devout churchgoers to be the ones most diligently shielding their children from the attendant dangers of daily life.
Sharing your anecdotal input, I refuse to fear, and I live my irreverent life as though I can deal with or deflect whatever comes my way, but I take pleasure in running freely and unafraid through the world. More than anything else, I fear myself, that I should do something ill-judged.
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Why are people so terrified?
