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Originally Posted by crich70
Funny you should mention him. I also had him in mind when writing the original post. I still remember seeing a program on tv about his crimes. Anyway the point I was trying to make is that even though we know on some level that X whether murder, molestation, etc. can happen in our own neighborhoods we still expect it to be someone else who is affected by it. We don't expect x to happen to us even though we know it could. It's part of being human I think. We think of the world as being safe even though it isn't really.
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Again, i don't say it cannot happen to my friends, i'm saying that the probability of such seems to be lower than in USA. Particular cases have nothing to do with statistics.
Of course, there could be a tornado tomorrow in Moscow, and all the city would be destroyed. But the chances of such a tornado are significantly lower for Moscow than for south of USA.