Public Un-Safety

Two days ago, I ran across this on twitter:

Again, the “if you disagree with me” “you make me feel unsafe.”

It is on the face of it a totally nonsensical claim. I’ve hung out with plenty of people with whom I disagreed violently, as for instance the late Eric Flint and my brother, and I’ve yet to be attacked or killed by them. And I’ve certainly neither attacked them nor killed them.

It is possible to have completely opposite ideas of how society or life in general should be run ...