So it's obvious that negative news has a much larger non linear effect on humans' survival instincts than positive news. Yes, you can get paranoid if you read MSN news which is all negative attention getting preying on human hard wired emotional survival.
I lived in rural/ now fringe suburban New England, and have seen bears, coyotes, bobcats, deer, fisher cats, all in the yard at one time or another. Never ever thought about shooting them for our cats' safety, nor ever thought about carrying a firearm just in case of the near zero probability of getting attacked by a bear. A neighborhood couple was walking the street with their heads down, and one looked up and was staring directly at the black bear in the neighborhood about 10-15 yards away. The couple moved to the other side of the road, and the bear basically ignored them. . .
Me thinks your image / pre conceived notion of bears as man eating / dog eating creatures roaming the earth as the apex predator. . are what comic books will do to you. . . Dude the apex predators are brown recluse spiders and flu/pnemonia viruses, end of story
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