Mortality Rate Quotes
The risk of sharks and pigs to man is each very small. A few cases of wild hogs—there are millions of them in the world—attacking humans (particularly children) occur annually throughout the world. But the deaths from pigs are usually from diseases that the pigs carry that the person who eats the pig acquires. Shark attacks get a great deal of publicity, like terrorist attacks. Problems with pigs, snakes and other animals less so. So most people have a misperception of the relative risk.
To some people this was an extreme concept of duty and patriotism of the British in their day of empire.
The fear of nuclear war was a major emotion for most people in the world at the time. Hard liners like Goldwater were concerned that that fear would undermine support for greater nuclear development and deployment in America and maintaining opposition to nuclear test ban treaties that were under discussion. He made the mistake however of referring to the fear as “craven”, morally denigrating any American who might be in fear of nuclear war, which included just about everyone. So the Democrats took this quotation and used it in their battery of TV ads showing Goldwater as not only a hard liner, but one who had no empathy or understanding for a normal person who feared a nuclear conflict—one who was not to be trusted with the Presidency. Had Goldwater simply argued that legitimate and reasonable fear of nuclear conflict might make the nation too timid and perhaps inadvertently increase the likelihood of nuclear disaster by not standing up to the Russians, he may not have had the resentment from most people who thought Goldwater was calling their fears “craven”.
As he predicted the Congressman was there long after the Secretary.
