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To: jlallen who wrote (139591)	7/9/2004 3:47:04 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

I would say I am more risk intolerant.... I don't know about before, but now you certainly seem risk intolerant. Where I come from we call that scared shitless, or panicky. Scared people are aggressive, dangerous and make poor decisions. Most scared people get over it soon enough and then regret many of the decisions they made in haste, or try to justify them. It's hard to say what those people will do who either can't or won't get over their panic. In your case I suspect you'll get over the big fear whenever Bush tells you the risk is acceptable. Or maybe not. As for me, I'm willing to accept that people are going to get killed by terrorists for decades to come and the best approach to dealing with the problem is to long-term problem solve it. The short term paradise promised by the "kill them all if they look funny" crowd is guaranteed to create more death and destruction than anything we could do intentionally. But I'm resigned to the fact that thinkers like you and Bush will just go on ahead until someone else takes the reins. Hopefully the public is willing to change horses in the middle of this charge to the edge of the cliff.

To: jlallen who wrote (139591)	7/9/2004 4:24:18 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Your risk tolerance (by which I assume you mean terrorism risk) is not the issue; your reactions to your perception is. Most of the world, including USA (remember Oklahoma?) has had to deal with terrorism. What made 9/11 different is that people saw it live on TV and that it caught people by surprise...and it helped that there was a group in White House who were just looking for a Pearl Harbor type of event to implement their agenda. I doubt 9/11 would have made as big of an impact in the say the Brits' psyche, given their fights with IRA. But perception is not reality...nor does the same perception lead to the same reactions by everyone. I'd rather deal with the real actions and their consequences rather than philosophize about how the world has changed.