>On the other hand, a bus accident doesn't result in an international airport or a city's entire metro system shutting down for an extended period of time, nor

>On the other hand, a bus accident doesn't result in an international airport or a city's entire metro system shutting down for an extended period of time, nor frightfully disrupt the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Regular old inclement weather does this all the time and people don't cry panic that society is going to implode. Shutting down transportation for a day is a silly thing to be terrorized about. >As for us, we behave like a herd of deer. When they flee from the huntsman's feathers in affright, which way do they turn? What haven of safety do they make for? Why, they rush upon the nets! And thus they perish by confounding what they should fear with that wherein no danger lies. . . . Not death or pain is to be feared, but the fear of death or pain. Well said the poet therefore:—Death has no terror; only a Death of shame! -Epictetus