The west as a whole is obsessed with feeling safe. It's why they were able to ram all the covid restrictions through.
If you've ever been abroad, you know that the west's safety obsession is an abberation. Driving in Central America reminded me of Mad Max. People have a way higher tolerance for danger there.
It's another abstraction of victim culture. If someone says "I don't feel safe", a non-trivial number of people will interpret that to mean the person isn't safe, AKA they're being victimized. That's why professional victims always use that language. "I felt unwelcome" is translated as "I was being ostracized". "I felt that my race made me a target" is translated as "I was being hunted by the racist white man". They don't have to say these things, they let the stupidity of the audience do it for them. Then when they're exposed a liars, technically they can say they never actually lied. They were just feelings, after all.
Why is "feeling safe" a first-order concern of anybody?
If you were absolutely determined to escape having to face those parents at the meeting, you'd likely end up writing something like that. As far as public statements go, "feeling unsafe" is always an excuse these days, not a concern.
He doesn't feel safe because he knows he's guilty of letting children die.
Nor should he.
The west as a whole is obsessed with feeling safe. It's why they were able to ram all the covid restrictions through.
If you've ever been abroad, you know that the west's safety obsession is an abberation. Driving in Central America reminded me of Mad Max. People have a way higher tolerance for danger there.
It's another abstraction of victim culture. If someone says "I don't feel safe", a non-trivial number of people will interpret that to mean the person isn't safe, AKA they're being victimized. That's why professional victims always use that language. "I felt unwelcome" is translated as "I was being ostracized". "I felt that my race made me a target" is translated as "I was being hunted by the racist white man". They don't have to say these things, they let the stupidity of the audience do it for them. Then when they're exposed a liars, technically they can say they never actually lied. They were just feelings, after all.
If you were absolutely determined to escape having to face those parents at the meeting, you'd likely end up writing something like that. As far as public statements go, "feeling unsafe" is always an excuse these days, not a concern.