The "complete stranger" does a lot of the heavy lifting here.That guy she is meeting might not be a total stranger; they might have been introduced earlier, and I think that is very often the case.On their second date, they definitely won't be strangers, so now, according to the statistics you showed, her risk of getting murdered is suddenly 9x higher! That's not very reassuring.Makes sense, then, to check on the first date for all possible red flags, doesn't it? And to err on the side of caution, even if that means that many - most - perfectly fine men will, unfortunately, be unfairly rejected. The plight of women is the plight of men...
See, it's all the Europeans' fault. They offended him by not handing him the actual Nobel Peace Prize. What's a dictator to do, then, but to invade and bomb yet another country.
Depends. A lot of people build bubbles and spend the rest of their lives reinforcing their walls. They will deeply interact only with very few hand-picked people, and their mutual trust keeps getting stronger. Also, you might be surprised that a lot of people never even read or watch the news.From this POV, your faith in what you think represents humanity might as well increase over time.
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