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Rational or not, family/friends freak out when you are close to a natural disaster or terrorist attack. I was in Chile during an 8.8 earthquake and assumed no
by salmonet 11y ago
Rational or not, family/friends freak out when you are close to a natural disaster or terrorist attack.
I was in Chile during an 8.8 earthquake and assumed no one would worry since the death toll was so low. But everyone at home went nuts, in the two days it took to contact my family my mother had already accepted that I was dead.
- madaxe_again 11y agoThey do - I was on the tube a few trains back from one that got hit in London in '07 - I responded to everyone with words to the effect of "of course, don't be irrational". I just worry that this sort of thing only fans the flames of irrational fears, and we have quite enough irrational thought driving the direction of the world right now.