Almost every day we are confronted by what seem to be senseless acts of violence, people hurting themselves or someone else, a person very close to them, a group of strangers; it doesn't seem to matter. And it scares us. That these events appear to be so random, taking place at some community school or college campus, an army base or shopping center -- sometimes even in our own backyards -- helps explain part of this fear. But maybe it is more the overwhelming sense of powerlessness that these acts bring out in so many of us that is so disconcerting, the feeling that there is really nothing you, I or any one can do about it; and we just have to resign ourselves to the fact that arbitrary...
↧