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Originally posted by utealum
Ah, okay. One hate crime every three months is your level of acceptable.
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No, of course it isn't acceptable. But one hate crime every three months is hardly a sign that the world's gone mad. I am fairly certain that people are not skulking around the Upper West Side paralyzed by fear of magic-marker wielding madmen.
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Originally posted by utealum
If it wasn't a hate crime against a stranger, but a vandalism of your own home, would once every three months still be okey dokey with you? Or would you maybe find one instance one too many?
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That's like saying that since the lifetime odds of being killed by a wasp, bee or hornet sting are about 69,000:1, then something must be done about this horrible stinging insect plague that is sweeping the country.
Even one person dying from a bee sting is too many but it does not mean that there is a bee epidemic out there.
And even one person having their dorm/home/hallway vandalized is too many but it simply does not make it an epidemic.