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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
My point is that in my view, at this stage in our development as a species this tendency to react spectacularly to what you describe as "spectacular examples" (I totally disagree with that description) is probably, overall, a bad thing. In other words, our negative reactions to events that are statistically unimportant relative to larger trends produces wrong behavior less often than helpful behavior.
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Case in point, a handful of child abduction cases leads to tens of millions of kids not being allowed to play outside unsupervised.