Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 16:27:21 -0500
Reply-To: Donald Baxter <onanov@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Donald Baxter <onanov@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: serious vanagon security issues
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I think one person's reality shouldn't translate into a reaction to
the actual likelihood that something might happen to someone else.
I'm not really sure how to define reality. I don't watch television
news so my reality is probably different from the reality that exists
in the minds of many others.
Right now, to many people, and (I think) because of 24/7 cable TV
news, there's an assault on white women--they're turning up missing
everywhere you look. Well, they turn up missing on TV at least. Now,
white women everywhere are scared to walk the streets at night when
the statistics would indicate they might be safer now than at anytime
in the last 30 years.
Here's a whole TV network devoted to missing white women <sheepish
grin--and requires RealAudio>:
http://www.onthemedia.org/stream/ram.py?file=raotm/otm062405f.mp3
On 8/6/05, Oxroad@aol.com <Oxroad@aol.com> wrote:
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> I don't mean this personally at all, but for my money statistics are great
> for conversation over tea. This thread was started by someone who was the
> victim of property crime at least twice. The stats. don't eliminate that.
> And they don't make his fears or anyone elses "irrational". They don't make
> concern irrational either.
>
> I think reality should trump statistics. The opposite is silly:
> The doctor says, "I'm sorry ma'am, your husband died of heart failure which
> is unusual for a man of 25. In fact if you look at the statistics he's doing
> fine."
>
> Greiving in this case might not be irrational regardless of the stats.
>
> (Also I'm guilty of not reporting property crimes because the downside is it
> will take my time and the upside is, well, nothing. I've filed a few times,
> but really it seems silly. And I'll be I'm not alone. And that's gonna skew
> the statistics.)
>
> Best,
> Jeff
> Purveyor of Reality
> 83.5 Westy
> LA,CA
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