The more I watch people talk about disasters, the more I think a lot of people mentally divide the world into Disaster Places and Normal Places and believe that they (wise, pragmatic, likable) have chosen to live in a Normal Place. This means that disasters that happen to them are bizarre and unfair exceptions, while disasters that happen to others are unfortunately what they get for their careless choices. This is a bad mindset. https://mstdn.social/@kissane/110504283096767652
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(Just for the avoidance of doubt, I think disasters are in fact bizarre and unfair exceptions wherever they happen. That is pretty much the definition of a disaster. Thinking that is not the bad.)
