"When people are in the grip of a scare they are carried away into a sentimental bubble of fear which not only detaches them from reality but makes them unreachable by reasoned argument. So armoured are they in their belief system that it is impossible to have dialogue with them. They bristle with humourless indignation, intone their empty, well-worn mantras, and fly off into personal abuse." [1]
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