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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do everything at night and have for 25 years. I have seen things happen to others in front of me - beatings, shootings (3), muggings.[/quote]

Is this meant to be some kind of...strange brag? You've witnessed beatings, THREE shootings, and muggings "in front of" you but you also announce you do "everything" at night still. You seem almost to be asking to become a crime statistic yourself. Either that, or you arrogantly think you're magically invincible.

If you're doing your nighttime errands in places where you're witnessing these things, you are doing those errands in places and/or at times that are undeniably stupid. [/quote]

But so what? How would any of the crime situation get better if people like that PP stopped going out at night?[/quote]

You really need it explained to you that "the crime situation" is a big-picture thing and that one PP's getting mugged or shot is about an  individual possibly ending up dead? If that PP is going places where there are "beatings, shootings, muggings" as PP claims -- then the PP will become another statistic in your "crime situation" soon. Is the PP supposed to keep on going out under those circumstances to...what, exactly? Give the moral middle finger to the criminals? "Look at me, I'm still here, doing my thing like I should be able to!" That does the PP's family no good when they're paying the hospital bills or the funeral costs. Do you not know the term, Pyrrhic victory? Maybe look it up. [/quote]

But what's it to you if PP feels comfortable doing all that stuff? It is actually still quite unlikely that he or she will become a victim of a crime. Why would you get all angry with PP for doing something that they think is safe, that you think is unsafe, but that has absolutely no bearing on you or anyone you know?[/quote]

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