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Originally posted by ShowtimeX:

Or is it a healthy fear?
I personally don't think it is. Not for that specific example. Much like around here in DC around the sniper time.

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I wear my seatbelt every time I get into my truck. Does that mean I fear getting into an accident? No, that means that I realize that it is a possibility.


Apples and oranges. Unless you are in New Hampshire, wearing your seatbelt is the law.

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I wear my sidearm every time I leave the house. Does that mean I fear being attacked? No, that means that I realize that it may happen. What I fear more than being attacked, is being attacked and unarmed.
And that's fine. But if you grab the sidearm with the primary reason being, "I may be in a mall when a nutcase comes in"...THAT is paranoia. Just like it'd be paranoia to say, "I'm never going to play golf, because I could be struck by a lightning bolt."
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"Nature has constituted utility to man the standard and test of virtue. Men living in different countries, under different circumstances, different habits and regimens, may have different utilities; the same act, therefore, may be useful and consequently virtuous in one country which is injurious and vicious in another differently circumstanced" - Thomas Jefferson, moral relativist