There are multiple stories I’ve seen or read over the years where the protagonist is living a happy life, then the terrorists/mobsters/white supremacists/demon worshippers push their way into it. The bad guy sneers that the happy life was an illusion — this, the use of brute force, is the reality!

That’s a big pile of bullshit.

Bad things are a reality. We all die, some of us too soon and very unpleasantly. Death, disease, suffering, poverty, they strike many of us. But they’re no...