Guess what? - We will never be "safe" again [View All]

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

Because it is a scary dangerous world and we cannot protect against every threat. You might as well put your children in helmets and padded clothing and drive behind them for the rest of their lives - strangely, somehow, somewhere, a mad dog will come from nowhere and attack them. The helmets and your surveillance were for naught. You did not plan for the mad dog. The helmets and padding and your surveillance gave your kids a weird,disconnected, cosseted life and a sense of security, but ultimately, it did not protect them from a mad dog attack.

This is the best analogy I can come up with for our constant demands to be made "safe" and "secure". These states will never happen and we are sacrificing the quality of our lives in this fruitless search.