Life goes on & all that

[juliet]

I'm working from home today, which is entirely unnecessary as have bike, will cycle. Am just lazy. I initially felt a bit guilty about this, what with all this "show those damn terrorists they haven't affected us!" spirit floating round. Then I realised that if the idea is to not let the terrorists affect us, then clearly I *should* act as normal i.e. seize any opportunity that presents itself to stay home. Hurrah! (also I *do* have a GP appt this afternoon so would have had to come home early anyway; in fact, WFH means that I actually *will* do a full day's work due to not losing 80min to commuting).

P & I are off out clubbing this evening, to Buttoned Down Disco, which looks like it might be fun.

Edit: there was something here about yesterday's events, but have now cut it as it appeared open to misinterpretation in a couple of different ways & I can't face trying to rewrite it more clearly as am feeling frazzled. Apart from: " 'quaking in terror' my fucking arse" which I think is clear enough.

Comments

[jvvw.livejournal.com]

There's a difference between emotions and ethics.

Shock and sympathy aren't things that need to be rationed out in a calculated way and telling people how they should react emotionally to something generally isn't effective because it's not something they have a great deal of control over. I have a different emotional reaction if I hear someone has been murdered to if I hear they have died through natural causes for instance. Maybe I shouldn't but I do and I suspect that I'm not alone.

Resources on the other hand are different, and should be used in a considered way based on your exact personal ethics (i.e. it might be sensible to put more resources into preventing road accidents than terrorist attacks).