Jim Henderson wrote:
> Perhaps "true twits" should be replaced with something indicating that in 
> general it's human nature to do so? 

It's a survival trait, actually. You forget the times you were wrong but 
mostly unharmed, because that's less important to survival than guessing 
right. You rarely forget to look both ways before crossing the street if 
you've actually been run down before, tho. That's where the whole concept of 
"grudge" and "stereotype" sort of thinking comes from.

Just like it's natural to overestimate danger of rare events. If guessing 
wrong once in 100 times that the rustling isn't a tiger in the grass, you 
get eaten. So naturally every rustle seems like a dangerous predator even if 
it almost never is. Hence the wild overreaction to things like a mother 
letting the kids walk home from the store, even tho only something like 20 
kids a year get kidnapped in the whole country by someone other than their 
own relatives.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."

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