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First off - Charles, that is a superb play on words that I will probably repeat (with your permission). Discussing without the dis is just cussing...

Someone on another board wrote: "Anger is only one letter away from Danger" - sorry, I enjoy succinct expressions of small truths.

Maybe the issue of being afraid stems from the legal difference between what they call "bare fear" and "reasonable fear."

I'm not a lawyer, I'm an engineer, but this is something Ayoob wrote about in a book I read many years ago. If you are in "reasonable" fear it means you have some reason to be afraid, and presumably you are justified in acting to prevent the harm you reasonably forsee.

Apparently "bare fear" is like an unreasonable fear of e.g. snakes or spiders. Some are venomous, most are harmless. If you see a "threatening-looking" man you are not justified in acting against him on the basis of your fear, since it is not yet reasonable. If he acts in a threatening manner, the situation changes.

Hey - I need more coffee before I spout off more and make a bigger fool of myself.

Regards,
Andrew