Reply #27: Well Said, Professor

[The Magistrate]

A rational assesment of risks, and a refusal to succumb to panic of any sort, is the key nowadays for us all as individuals, and our society as a whole. The aim of our enemies, both in our own government, and in the jihadi movement, is to produce unreasoning fear and panic in the people. We must resist this at all levels, and it really is not that hard to do. Fearlessness and fear alike are merely habits of mind: the one can be cultivated, the other dropped like any other self-destructive behavior.