Brian H: What? Nuclear terrorism? Get a grip. Drunk drivers are WAY more dangerous.

Drunk drivers can’t wipe out whole cities, and thus thousands upon thousands of would-be future care providers, in a single blast. Unless of course, they happen to be carrying a nuke in their trunk, set to detonate on any sort of impact.

Whiskey: One of the negative consequences of Western/modern life is the atomizing of individuals without mediating institutions.

I’ve brought this up on a few occasions in the past, but from a cultural standpoint – the very concept of the nation is in serious danger, thanks to the advent of global, on-demand media such as the Internet which enable its users to, for all intents and purposes, create their own unique cultural experience. Common culture, without which no nation can survive as such, is going the way of the dinosaur. The kicker is, this means that even reproducing at well above replacement levels isn’t going to save America’s or anyone else’s national culture; all those kids, once they are introduced to this global “cafeteria culture”, will just become culturally atomized themselves.