What People Fear Most About Tragedy Is Its Randomness - A Taxi Cab Jumps The Curb And Hits A Pedestrian, A Gun Misfires And Kills A Bystander. Better To Have Some Rational Cause And Effect Between Incident And Injury. And If Cause And Effect Aren't Possible, Better That There At Least Be Some Reward For All The Suffering.

-Jeffrey Kluger

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What People Fear Most About Tragedy Is

Jeffrey Kluger

What People Fear Most About Tragedy Is Its Randomness - A Taxi Cab Jumps The Curb And Hits A Pedestrian, A Gun Misfires And Kills A Bystander. Better To Have Some Rational Cause And Effect Between Incident And Injury. And If Cause And Effect Aren't Possible, Better That There At Least Be Some Reward For All The Suffering.

Topic

Gun

Bystanders

Taxi Cabs

Spending $1 For A Brand New House Would Feel Very, Very Good. Spending $1,000 For A Ham Sandwich Would Feel Very, Very Bad. Spending $19,000 For A Small Family Car Would Feel, Well, More Or Less Right. But As With Physical Pain, Fiscal Pain Can Depend On The Individual, And Everyone Has A Different Threshold.

Pain

Car

House