Lebell

My own theory is much simpler.

If a rabid dog is roaming around the city terrorizing neighborhood children, people will call the police (who may or may not come), and hand wring while keeping everyone inside until someone else deals with the situation.

In the country, a farmer will get out his rifle (probably an evil assault Mini14 ranch rifle) and shoot the dog, problem solved.*

In other words, city people tend to talk and trust the government to protect them, whereas rural people tend to act and take responsibility for themselves.

Simplist view?

Perhaps.

But I also see it as having more than a little truth, especially with my experiences in dealing with urban and rural America.




*Earlier this year, I remember reading a story that illustrated this point perfectly. I man had either a boa or python that had wrapped itself around his throat. He scrambled outside and people were frantically trying to get the snake to release him, but in a few minutes he was dead.

No one even thought to take a knife or just a big rock and kill the snake.

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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis

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