@parados,
DAVID wrote:Yes; its to enable me
to control a predatory emergency, if 1 arises.
So far, only 1 significant predatory emergency has arisen,
parados wrote:And that is a pretty good definition of paranoia.
No. It just shows that u r
uneducated qua the nature of paranoia,
which is
ego-centric, in that the afflicted person has delusions
of grandeur and/or of persecution by important, sinister groups,
thereby indicating his
imagined extra-ordinary importance,
the point being that if he were of no particular consequence,
then no one 'd be interested in his life. I am
1OO% confident
that no one of any organization whatsoever is following me,
nor tapped my fone, nor watching me in any way whatsoever.
No one cares and I
LOVE my anonymity; it is a treasured asset.
That is not to say that I 'm immune from drowning while swimming
in the ocean, nor immune from getting hit by lightning or a truck,
or immune from being robbed, at random. That is not paranoid.
That does not single me out. It is recognition of the human condition.
parados wrote:You are worried about being prepared for a situation that has occurred once in over 50 years.
Now u claim to be a
mind-reader, that u know when I am
"worried"??
I have
no emotions about things that coud possibly go bad.
I don 't live in a state of fear qua heart attacks, nor flat tires,
nor falling down the stairs, nor getting robbed, but I know
that it is wise to be as well prepared as possible to control
emergencies that can arise. Accordingly, I have health insurance,
a fire extinguisher, spare tires, Primatine Mist and defensive guns.
I recommend them to the attention of all of my fellow citizens.
parados wrote:If you have asthma then I would guess you have needed an inhaler
more than once in 50 years. If you have never needed it or only
needed it once then I would consider it irrational.
I very seldom need it, but I take comfort in
knowing that if
I feel a little tight in my chest, I can have recourse to that; it works.
(Guns do too;
the mere display, without more.)
parados wrote:I would consider it irrational if you carried a shovel just in case you had to dig a grave.
OK, on that, we can agree.
I have never dug one, and I intend to live out my days without ever doing so.
DAVID wrote:Do u carry spare tires in the trunks of your cars??
Do u have an irrational fear of flat tires????
parados wrote:Sometimes I do and sometimes I don't. I have also had at least 3 flat tires in the last 5 years
requiring the use of a spare. Hardly irrational under a question of how often I need the item.
U r a statistician, right??
When I was 11, I adopted the philosophy that I shud not risk more
than I am willing to lose.
Inter alia, that applies to predatory emergencies.
U r free to cast your fate to the winds n take your chances.
U r the captain of your own ship. (Beware of pirates.)
parados wrote:The spare tire comes with the car. I keep it in the car where it was when I bought it. I don't feel a need to carry the spare tire on my person at all times just in case. I don't have to remove it from the car and put it back in every time I take a trip.
If defensive guns were that bulky n awkward,
then we coud not carry them around.
parados wrote:I don't obsess about having it.
Carrying guns when u go out is a lot like wearing shoes; u don 't think much about them.
All the guys I 've known who carry defensive guns, including police, seldom think about them.
Like our keys, we don 't think of them unless we need them; we don 't "obsess".
DAVID wrote:It is also well known that this predatory violence sometimes arises when u r not expecting it.
Predators do not always make appointments beforehand.
parados wrote:Asteroids don't make appointments and I don't feel I need to carry around protection from them.
I would consider anyone that felt the need to always carry protection from asteroids to be irrational.
There is no defense from them.
There exist defenses from human n non-human predators.
David
