>I wonder if the author also refuses to go to bars, because there have been people beaten at or abducted from them, or drive a car, because there have been case

>I wonder if the author also refuses to go to bars, because there have been people beaten at or abducted from them, or drive a car, because there have been cases of road rage, or avoid churches because they have been boarded and burned, or schools because there have been shootings, or... Do you use this "take-it-to-the-extreme" for every argument you hear? Most of the times, arguments are meant to be considered at the level at which they are told and for the situations for which they are told. For example, when one tells you to wear something warm when outside is snowing, he doesn't mean you should wear 20 overcoats and a special thermal suite. So, to avoid schools because "there have been shootings" and such, is not at all like "avoid declaring your exact location to the whole world especially now with the availability of pervert-targeted-apps like Girls Around Me". For one, the statistics on rapes and sexual assaults VS school shootings don't favor your argument in the least.