Why don`t people realize we will never be safe and we cannot be safer. We can only feel safe. What a bunch of hot air.
2006-09-24 17:01:17 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
I disagree, at least in part. "Safe" is an absolute, and that makes it virtually impossible to achieve.
"Safer" is relative, and entirely possible. If you are sitting at home, you are probably safer than someone driving 100 mph at night with their headlights turned off.
Ask anyone in the gay community, and they will tell you there is no safe sex, only safer sex.
2006-09-24 17:24:57 · answer #1 · answered by Jay S 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I disagree. Complete safety is not possible, safe is. Safer implies a comparison between at least two possiblities. While it is not safe to cross a street in the midst of traffic, if one doesn't wish to be hit, the safe choice to get down the street is to stay on the sidewalk. If you are determined to get to the other side, though, you must cross. The safe choice is to do so at the crosswalk, with the green light. The safer choice is to look for a pedestrian overpass, going up over the street as opposed to through the traffic. I suppose the safest choice would be to stay home on the ranch, where there is no vehicle traffic at all. Safe doesn't necessarily imply no unpleasant consequences, it just means lowering the risk of them. Although safeness is an abstract concept, the feeling is none the less necessary for survival at levels above pure existance.
2006-09-25 00:19:36 · answer #2 · answered by The mom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How safe were the airlines on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001?
Are the airlines now safer than they were on that morning? Can you take a "box opener" on board now?
Safer, yes!
Safe from yet unknown dangers? No!
Get your reasoning out of politics.
2006-09-25 00:10:21 · answer #3 · answered by ed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well you promote certain feelings by using words. By using safer rather than safe, people feel better. But you're right: hot air.
2006-09-25 00:04:08 · answer #4 · answered by Dick V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree and I disagree. It's true, if you're safe, you can not be safer still. Being safe means no danger. But if you're not safe, which today we're not, getting "safer" is to be seen as a comparative clause - it just means something is being done to reduce the danger.
2006-09-25 00:13:47 · answer #5 · answered by Tahini Classic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone wants to feel safe in the world. There's nothing worse than a lot of paranoid people running around.
2006-09-25 00:03:28 · answer #6 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the way the neo/clowns sell fear.
Which is their only way of trying to get votes.
Do you think that they will run on their record for the last 2 Bush terms? Hell, they won't even talk about Iraq now, all they are sound biting is the war in Afghanistan, which bush walked away from in his pursuit of Saddam.
2006-09-25 00:11:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The safest stance is to meet a threat head on and eliminate it.
2006-09-25 00:10:07 · answer #8 · answered by S.A.M. Gunner 7212 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I agree with you. Beware of false securities. True security can only come from within.
2006-09-25 00:04:03 · answer #9 · answered by danaluana 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it will change the polls then they will say it.
2006-09-25 00:03:38 · answer #10 · answered by wowwhatwasthat 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋