Norway Bombing

[leo9]

thir....Losalt...

I think you misunderstand me, i never meant that we should change the way we live because of these outrages. I only meant the there is now no safe haven anywhere in the world.

There never was. In the early 20th century people were scared of Nihilist bombers. In the 16th century the fear figure was the "murder-burner", the arsonist. (In cities of tarred wood and thatched roofs you didn't need a bomb to create a massacre, just a torch.) Greek and Norse legends include tales of people who were possessed by gods or demons and ran wild killing everyone in sight. There is a minute but real possibility that the next person you meet will be looking to kill you, for political or religious or psychiatric reasons. You either live with it, or stay home and hide under the bed.

[Thorne]

There is a minute but real possibility that the next person you meet will be looking to kill you, for political or religious or psychiatric reasons.

The reasons don't really matter. They are all insane to one degree or another. Politics and religion only give some people an excuse, in their own minds, to kill strangers. Or even friends and family. It's only when the insanity becomes institutionalized, as in religion or governments, that the reasons begin to make a difference, and even then only to those who are doing the killing. The dead don't care. The survivors care only for revenge (or justice, if you prefer.)