Yeah, perfesser, there is a whole spectrum of opportunities. Isn’t there always? And I describe only one.

The Ghostbusters scene is striking precisely because it depicts reality in an unreal situation – an imaginary garden with a real toad in it, so to speak. The reality is in depicting how most people actually react when someone else is in danger but they feel safe where they are. There is a seemingly endless string of examples of this very behavior among individuals and among nations.

So you have my opinion. What’s yours? Can you suggest a more likely outcome? Or are you just intellectualizing the obvious – that there is “a whole spectrum of possibilities” without offering your opinion of which one you think is most likely – if not the one I suggest.