Yes.
In a high-stress environment, the best approach is to talk to other people, share ideas, discuss, etc. This helps to form a joint line of psychological defense against stress. Isolation and silence, on the other hand, are breeding grounds for stress. Reaching out to people and discussing what we think is happening is the best method of psychological hygiene in such situations.
It’s not important that we don’t know exactly what is happening right now. What matters is that we don’t stay silent and let anxiety mount. Remember that voicing whatever one is feeling is the best strategy to release stress and combat anxiety.
The worst thing one can do is to stay alone and isolated while letting a TV screen yell stressful things at you. Alone and isolated without a TV screen is much better.
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The worst thing anyone can possibly do with a tragedy like this is start to politicize it and blame people from different ends of the political spectrum for a really unexpected event that no one saw coming. Yes, any large event like this is likely to be a target for an extremist and that doesn’t mean that precautions shouldn’t be taken, but in this case, I don’t see any particular group that deserves to be blamed for what happened. I have a feeling that the government might pass some laws that might end up restricting people’s rights just like with 9/11 as a knee jerk reaction after a bunch of partisan fighting.
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Lets hope it doesn’t happen, but you are right, the most recent precedent is not good.
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“I don’t see any particular group that deserves to be blamed for what happened”
yet…
“the government might pass some laws that might end up restricting people’s rights”
replace ‘might’ with ‘will absolutely’
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Unfortunately, some people (and unfortunately some well meaning bloggers that I respect who I will not name here) are already blaming a Saudi Arabian guy or someone from CAIR for the whole mess! Terrorist attack in America automatically conflates to “Muslim who wants to blow things up Libya style” type nonsense because there were multiple bombs that went off, and that kind of bombing was used in India and other places. It really does seem odd that an Islamic terrorist would choose a marathon of all things to launch an attack if that’s really true!
I have my own thoughts about who might have did it, but I’m going to stick to a random Timothy McVeigh like moron decided to do this. I think the guy behind the attack in Norway actually used one of the articles from the Mises Institute in his manifesto or something, though this isn’t meant to be a slam against them.
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“Unfortunately, some people (and unfortunately some well meaning bloggers that I respect who I will not name here) are already blaming a Saudi Arabian guy”
– On the basis of the Saudis being prominent in the 9/11 attacks, I’m guessing? I find that reasoning quite strange, but anything is possible.
What is really fascinating to me is what is the very first thing everybody thinks. It says a lot about all of us. For instance, one can easily see that I’m addicted to Law & Order in that my very first instinct is to suspect domestic crime.
” I’m going to stick to a random Timothy McVeigh like moron decided to do this”
– Given that this act of terror was quite ineffective (as acts of terror go), I think this is likely. But then again, remember the fried-balls terrorist? That guy was ineffective, too.
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Talking about it, yes, but I’m avoiding comments sections in most places, so I don’t have to see people take cheap political potshots at each other or wail about how our world is more savage than it’s ever been. No, it isn’t. We’ve always been capable of this kind of savagery, or worse, though until recent years we didn’t have the Internet to continuously give us details of every act of terror or violence anywhere.
The marathon was an event involving thousands of people congregating peacefully (and many responded beautifully in the aftermath of the explosions). All it takes is one evil person to pull something like this off, and that person certainly isn’t typical. I get the feeling that some people want to believe they’re living in a world which is more evil than it ever was. There’s a tone of self-satisfaction and self-pity in these comments that I detest.
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What a great comment, hkatz. I really appreciate your perspective.
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http://rt.com/news/iraq-election-attack-killed-876/
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Will the NRA now start vigorously defending the right to own and deploy bombs?
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Or liberals starting to promote a bombs’ register?
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The conservative talk show take on the Boston bombings.
I note that the Senate just failed today to pass the bill on gun show registrations for guns.
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“I note that the Senate just failed today to pass the bill on gun show registrations for guns.”
– I did not expect them to. 😦 😦
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