Add a teaspoon of wine to a barrel of sewage: you get a barrel of sewage. Add a teaspoon of sewage to a barrel of wine: you get a barrel of sewage. Which is t

Add a teaspoon of wine to a barrel of sewage: you get a barrel of sewage. Add a teaspoon of sewage to a barrel of wine: you get a barrel of sewage. Which is to say that some factors kind of overshadow all the others, quite disproportionately. For me, this usually shows up with Australia's wildlife: people are afraid to visit because of silly little things like the wide variety of poisonous snakes, spiders, dropbears, etc. They don't bother me... but I don't walk through long grass without boots on.