09-13-2019, 12:32 PM
I think what Dan is trying to say, and is having trouble being really listened to, is that (to take a similar but different example) during a news report on a recent rape is not the time to dispense advice on avoiding dark pathways. It might be prudent advice (or might be irrelevant — I don’t have much expertise in avoiding becoming a victim) in a world that has not brought sufficient accountability to the perpetrators, but there is a time and a place for it, and during a report on another victim is not it. At that time the emphasis should be on somebody being hurt by the actions of others, not on what steps the local sidewalk superintendents think they should have taken to avoid being hurt.