Comment by danielmarkbruce

They can, you just have to look at each issue and it's costs and benefits and risks over time. You desperately want to world to be simple. It isn't. There is a slippery slope, you can stand on it but you want to have some concept of what happens when you slip.

There are examples of the boogeyman existing in real life - just 80 years ago we had one of the worst. Right now we have some boogeymen although not Hitler level. Get a little historical perspective.