On Risk, Common Sense And Compassion

I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about the risks of travel, how people perceive them and react to them.

I was on a red-eye flight back from LA to JFK last week. We had encountered some turbulence early on, and then things calmed down for a few hours. When the pilot announced more turbulence ahead and asked people to stay in their seats with their seat belts fastened, I heard dozens of people clicking their seat belts on.

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