- DeltaFiveZero
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- Senior Mythic Member
Digging Foxholes by Profession
Accept No Substitutes
Because we're human, and the majority of us can't confine ourselves to rational thought, and the rest of us can only do it part of the time.
Ignorance is bliss. When people hear bad news, they try not to think about not, try not to think about what it means, and failing all other courses of action, they just try to pretend it isn't that big of a deal.
Which is why it takes a big -blam!- deal that can't be ignored before the bold among us will rise and call for an end to it. Which is why the public has to be stirred into a unanimous outcry before the political machinations we constructed to protect ourselves from the raw harshness of the world will come to bear on our problems.
It's because we're naive and stupid. It's also becuse we know too much, and we're too smart for our own good. It's because we're human.