People associate behavior and objects with things they are familiar with. This gives them some kind of grounding in context so they can more easily dissociate w

People associate behavior and objects with things they are familiar with. This gives them some kind of grounding in context so they can more easily dissociate with potential threats. There is a good example of this in batman, which outlines the situation well. The joker says: Nobody panics when things go “according to plan.” Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it’s all “part of the plan.” But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds! We expect that soldiers and gang bangers have risks associated with that behavior, but mayors should not. Same with this the GP wants to believe that the pager is in a different class of 'risk' than the walkie talkie at home, and now walkie talkies are used in an attack, they are adjusting their world view. Edit: Spelling and punctuation. I could just be talking out of my ass too.