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I’ve been thinking about the following quote from CS Lewis a lot lately. It’s still applicable today (75 years later). The threats may change, but be they nuclear weapons, AI, or something else; I think these 3 paragraphs are still worth the read and contemplation. I hope they ease your mind the way they ease mine. ❤️
“In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. ‘How are we to live in an atomic age?’ I am tempted to reply: ‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.’
In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways. We had, indeed, one very great advantage over our ancestors—anesthetics; but we have that still. It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.
This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”
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@scottmelker My daughter won’t go to the bathroom in school because she’s afraid she’ll get trapped there if a shooter comes.
Oh… and one of the teachers showed them a video of an actual school shooter roaming the halls as an example that was not sanctioned by the school.
Also… she’s 8.
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This country is really fucked up.
My wife just picked up our three year old. He said he was scared because the bad guys are coming to school tomorrow but his teacher and the officer will protect him if he goes in the bathroom and stays quiet.
Because they’re doing a live shooter drill.
And he thinks it’s real.
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@dopetokeneth @dozerparker721 0x6528fb11BD698a3b8603db4c355a5be22F132365
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@aaraalto /imagine a golfer 🏌🏿♂️ teeing off on top of a planet 🌎 launching the ball into orbit
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