In the comparison
between terrorist attacks and road accidents, the main difference is how victims
die and the main similarity is that victims die.
The challenge is to
avoid getting absorbed by one or the other reality, while acknowledging that
two realities can exist next to each other. But as in more cases, we can fall
in the trap of mutual exclusivity: either one reality is true or the other
reality is true.
Perhaps this trap of mutual exclusivity has to do with the fear that creates the ‘us-them’ divide: "Them is what can turn dangerous any time, and us is what I can always trust." Such fear can make us blind for the bad things of us and the good things of them.
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