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We Pride Ourselves On Being The Only Species That Understands The Concept Of Risk, Yet We Have A Confounding Habit Of Worrying About Mere Possibilities While Ignoring Probabilities, Building Barricades Against Perceived Dangers While Leaving Ourselves Exposed To Real Ones.

Athletes Often Start Life At The Opposite End Of The Wealth And Prestige Spectrum, But As Soon As They Exhibit An Unusual Talent For Swinging A Bat Or Sinking A Free-throw They May Find That The Rules Have Been Suspended For Them. They Are Waved Through School And Into The Pros, And Incidents Of Bad Behavior Are Overlooked Or Covered Up.

What Makes Spinal-cord Injuries As Devastating As They Are Is That Everything About Them Plays Out In Absolutes: They Are Instantaneous, Utterly Disabling And Horribly Permanent.

Even The Best Computer In The World Has No Idea That It Exists. You Do. No One Knows What Creates That Ineffable Awareness That We're Here.

Well, I Think Of The Folks Who Are The Climate Deniers As The Flat Earthers And The People Who Say The Moon Landings Never Happened.