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From: Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: bike path news
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 21:51:56 -0400
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On 3/11/2025 8:50 AM, AMuzi wrote:
> On 3/10/2025 9:56 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>> On 3/10/2025 8:11 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>> 
>>>
>>> The murder of this thread was of an unarmed man on a bike path.
>>
>> Which does not mean it's even remotely likely on the bike path where 
>> Mr. Tricycle Rider rides. It was a one in a million event, thousands 
>> of miles away.
>>
>> His fear is as unrealistic as fear of dying from a spider bite. It's 
>> almost as unrealistic as fear of walking past a graveyard. It's a 
>> phobia, and his quasi-macho defense strategy is even less admirable 
>> than clutching a teddy bear.
>>
> 
> OK, the risk is remote. But it's not zero.

Andrew, no risk is zero. But rational and non-phobic people's assessment 
of most risks is _usually_ at least vaguely related to the actual 
likelihood of the bad event.

That's not true for some "dangers," like spiders and snakes. There are 
fewer than ten deaths from each per year in the U.S.  Yet many people 
are completely irrational in those phobias.

Mr. Tricycle is similarly irrational in his fear of riding a bike path 
without his gun. And he's lately let us know that he's also afraid of 
driving without a gun or pumping gas without a gun. He's afraid of 
pedaling on normal streets, too, gun or no. Remember, he's still in an 
endless snit because I said that if he lacked the courage or competence 
to ride normal roads, he could continue just riding back and forth on 
his path, but it would be too boring for me.

His fears are not normal, and his fearful behavior is not admirable.

-- 
- Frank Krygowski