Ash MacLean

“We want to believe that human violence is somehow beyond our understanding, because as long as it remains a mystery, we have no duty to avoid it, explore it, or anticipate it. We need feel no responsibility for failing to read signals if there are none to read.”
― Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

“So here we are, traveling along faster than anyone before the 1900’s ever traveled (unless they were falling off a cliff), dodging giant, high-momentum steel missiles, judging the intent of their operators with a fantastic accuracy, and then saying we can’t predict human behavior.”
― Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence