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> You cannot live your life paranoid Agree! Life is so much better. > Twice I nearly lost my father to terrorism in London. Oh. You just don’t know the defin
by lowbloodsugar 2mo ago
> You cannot live your life paranoid
Agree! Life is so much better.
> Twice I nearly lost my father to terrorism in London.
Oh. You just don’t know the definition of the word “paranoia”.
- dofm 2mo agoI clearly understand that I can personally do nothing about someone wanting to blow me up. If I am on a train with a brown man with a backpack, I do not think it likely he is going to kill me. If it is neat, I think he is going to work. If it is enormous, I think he's probably visiting relatives. If there are wires hanging out of it I think, hey, he hates airpods too. He's just a brown man with a backpack. I do, however, accept that some brown men with backpacks have blown up tube trains, that the direct causes of that are things I may not even know about, that the risk has not gone away at all, and that indeed at some points the risk may be severe. I can't know which. But the security services can. I can decide not to be paranoid about being watched, too.