Re: [HoE] Some non-DP comments and questions...

["Justin Bush" <jbush0@email.msn.com>]

> A serial killer is one thing.  A mojave rattler is another.  Or what if
>said killer could kill you on a whim, without so much as lifting a
>finger?
>  Or if you want to keep it on a mundane level, what if EVERY person on
>your street, block, or apt building has been killed, injured or attacked
>by a serial killer?  Would you still get used to it?

I suspect I would eventually.  Having never been in such a situation, I
can't truly say, but I suspect that yes, eventually I would get over the
"General" fear of a thing, and be only subject to the "Specific" fear of the
thing.  Such as I currently am with serial killers, mountain lions, and
mother-in-laws.

>   Our soceity is so overpopulated and saturated with the media than
>anything short of being in the next room isn't real to us.  In the world
>of Hell on Earth, this is different, since the closet thing to
>socializing one has is a market or square- and even then the weirdos are
>there with everyone else, so it's 'watch your back'.
>    Don't look at it from a 90s perspective so much as a technology
>unfriendly one, and maybe you'll have a better idea of what Deadlands
>and HoE is about.  :)

I'm not sure what you are saying here...  Are you saying the 90's attitude
towards technology is friendly or unfriendly?


>   Well, color me a Republican, but to me it's cut and dry.  You have my
>response.  If you, or anyone else, has an opinion about what a
>Fearmonger is, then you can answer that question for yourself.  And so,
>for the sake of the list, I am personally dropping the matter.


Fair enough.  I do think, however, that the question still merits discussion
(or has it been addressed officially in some form?).

>I know that
>>most of the people pre-2081 are no longer around, as a result of
>nuclear war
>>and the Four Horsemen.  But for the people, the war is over and the
>Horseman
>>have vanished.  I agree it would be frightening, but I would think that
>the
>>fear levels would begin to steadily decline.
>
>   Lets say were are in a dark room.  Me, you, and say a dozen other
>people.   Whenever Death touches a person, they die.  So far 5 or 6 have
>fallen dead and we can't see who's next.  Would you say that since you
>haven't been touched yet that "Death has vanished?".  I would say that
>NOT knowing where the Horsemen are is more frightening than knowing.
>But, that's just my opinion.  *shrug*


Yeah, I think that if I were in this darkroom and people had been getting
killed for 13 years, I would get over the general fear of it.  I wouldn't be
_living_ in fear.

Justin