It will be very interesting to see what comes of all of this.
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Originally Posted by CCIP
Honestly, at the end of the day, the fear-mongering won't get us anywhere. It forces people to deal with the world as it is imagined in their worst fears, not as it actually is. And that's just a waste of precious time and opportunity to do something good about it, instead of arm self to the teeth and wait for the supposedly-inevitable onslaught. |
Couldn't agree with you more. In less delicate terms, fear can make us stupid and blind; and certain people have no problem with manipulating that fear to their own advantage.