Getting flashbanged (minus the bang, usually but not always) by my electronics is helping me build up an immunity to riot control devices. Combine it with my cooking and it’s good training for pepper spray, tear gas and vomiting agents as well.
From a pure math point of view with some assumptions about X being greater than zero, sure. There is an upper limit to the value of thinking about a thing though and it’s somewhere between “thoughtful consideration” and “huffing my own farts in lotus position for 12 hours a day”.
Reduce your likelihood of being hit by a car (when compared to activities such as walking across a street, assuming you are not meditating in said street)
Increase the odds of becoming an insufferable douchebag who tells people all about how meditation has changed their life
No need, they were both among a set of legitimate targets. It wasn’t terrorism and the only people complaining about it slept through all their history classes.
How about neither atrocity nor blunder? It was the right thing to do and saved lives on both sides by ending the war in the Pacific. Wars still happen but we’ve gone nearly 80 years without making the world wars into a trilogy since nobody sane wants to invite that level of destruction again.
Getting flashbanged (minus the bang, usually but not always) by my electronics is helping me build up an immunity to riot control devices. Combine it with my cooking and it’s good training for pepper spray, tear gas and vomiting agents as well.