Ted the Penguin

Safe?

I couldn’t have said it better myself:

“Safe,” of course, is kind of a red herring. Nobody can ever be truly safe. Not in a world where lightning strikes at random. Not in a world where meteors fall out of the sky. Not in a world where hurricanes barrel toward land and nothing in Heaven or Earth can stop them.

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Pragmatism aside, we fight terrorism because it’s the right thing to do.

Questions of safety are foolish and cowardly. If we’re doing what’s right, then whether we’re safe at this particular moment isn’t important. At least it shouldn’t be. Because doing what’s right is more important than doing what makes us feel safe. Even when — especially when — doing what’s right is hard and doing what’s wrong is easy.

Please read it in its entirety, well worth it.

From The Shape of Days