Here's why I am not worried - or going to worry. (re the NK potential shit storm).

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24. I think your attitude is possibly the most reasonable

approach one could have considering this rather vast collection of unknown extremes hurling around. If all the basics of my life were in order and I wasn't resposible for making the decisions that put my family at risk in this strange time we live in, I would probably have the resolve to put things to rest as you have. But I am very concerned for personal issuse I can't change because I can't burden my family with those concerns... so I carry it myself so they don't have to.

I have a 14 year old in Seattle, away from home for the first time participating in an important opportunity I would never deny him because of silly rumors of nuclear war, I'm concerned. I have a high school age daughter hiking on the west coast near points of nuclear contention. I worry. If by some strange happenstance there was a nuclear incident caused by two toddler minded maniacs with the power to wreak havoc on our society and separate me from my kids by a thousand miles, I would not be happy.

There are situations that make the idea of "oh well, I can't do anything anyway" not quite realistic when I have trusted my kids to a reasonably known society to find out that those reasonably knowns are on the verge of infinitely unknowable.