War can happen anywhere. You really don't know that much about geopolitics, do you?
You are right that in the western world right now, unlike 100 years ago, countries benefit from continued stability. The heavy bombardment of modern cities, and the cost to rebuild them, is a significant deterrant.
But war. Is a reality.
As usual... you are _NOT COUNTING_ reality.
Are you saying Somalia is not a real place?
They are not real people?
Their deaths are not real, or tragic to the ones they leave behind?
You should count yourself blessed that you aren't in Somalia, instead you decide that none of it exists, war is a myth, and you begin to eliminate dangers you consider irrelevant to you.
If you a heremit who never leaves the house, then I guess the most dangerous things in your life to be the electrical inlet in the wall (do NOT stuff knitting sticks into them!!!) and, I guess, uncomfortable people on the internet.
But that is only according to your redefined scale.
What do you even mean by 'reality'? How is war your reality? How do you live in Somalia, or on the moon for that matter? Are you frightened of asphyxiation by vacuum as well? I heard that is a very 'real' and cruel death. Space is full of vacuum, it is all around us. Are you saying that space is not real? Are you saying asphyxiation by vacuum is not tragic? You are _NOT COUNTING_ reality ...
It sounds to me like you are in fact the one with the imagination who is not looking at the reality around him. Death is tragic, but the fact is we just ignore it around the world all the time. War is a symptom of poor countries and we are not very active in sharing any of our resources to improve their situation. War is by death count a pretty minor factor in all that mess. Just to refresh your memory.
I think what needs to be clarified on here is: What is the purpose and driver of fear? Is it rather world improvement by emotional involvement that effectively goes without any effect, or maybe is it rather to protect yourself of possibly dangerous situations or other circumstances that affect
you (or what you care about) negatively? Does it make any sense at all to be afraid of malaria, AIDS, the hantavirus, starvation, radiation exposure and what not very 'real' and cruel dangers of the world when you are some fat dude sitting in some basement in Canada? Does it make sense to worry about all the things that mess people up and cause misery, that you as an individual can't change anyway where they occur, and when the masses seem to be disinterested in changing much about it as well?
How would that have anything to do with reality? I urge you to answer that.
