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Fact is, you don't whether anyone regardless of how they look is going to be a danger to you. It doesn't take a particularly enlightened person to realize that not only Arabs and black guys are killing people in this world. Yet, apparently it takes an inordinate amount of rational thought to keep oneself from slipping into a paranoid fit whenever they see an 'Arab looking all Muslimy' on a plane.
I suggest that any who feels that way not go back and re-watch those airport security cameras of the 9/11 hijackers before they got onto the planes. Then you might find yourself freaking out over all the Hispanic or vaguely Mediterranean-looking guys with button-down collars and chinos, too. Unless, of course, you are convinced that you can tell a Greek from an Italian from a Puerto Rican from a Spaniard from a Lebanese from a Pakistani, etc., etc., etc. with absolute certainty. Maybe, to be safe, you should just stay home. Board yourselves in even.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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