<p>It’s an old article, but I think it’s a useful reflection related to some of the comments here:</p>
<p>[The</a> Random Death Of Our Sense of Ease (washingtonpost.com)](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10070-2002Oct10.html]The”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10070-2002Oct10.html)</p>
<p>People always comment on how the victim should have done this, or should have done that. Sometimes I wonder if it’s not just their presumptuous attempt to reassure themselves it wouldn’t happen to them.</p>