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aschaffe@holodeck.asd.sgi.com (Allan Schaffer) wrote:
 
> This is entirely paranoid and I dismiss it as overreaction.

I agree.  Yes, those people are out there, but the odds of being killed
by one of them by talking to him in a bar or something are a lot less 
than your odds of being killed in a car accident on the way home.

OTOH, there's no reason to get in a stranger's car or home.  And yes it's
a good idea to meet in a public place when getting to know someone new.

> Yes -- take actions to keep yourself reasonably safe.  Determine for
> yourself what those actions might be.  But Polly Klaas, since you
> mentioned it -- she was taken from her -home- and killed.  To take
> actions such that one would be completely protected against that kind
> of danger would require extreme paranoia.

I for one will not lock myself in some prison of a life behind security
walls where everyone I haven't met before is viewed as a psychopath. 
Such a life would lead me to want to kill myself anyway so what's the
point.
 
> Using her name to imply that "you will end up a victim like her if
> you're not careful" is seriously tacky.

Big time.
 
> Allan

> Allan Schaffer                                             aschaffe@sgi.com
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