The organizers long strived to keep politics aside, but global tensions have often imposed themselves on the contest, and things are no different this year.
Violence from religious extremists has been a problem in Sweden for several years now, and the war in Gaza has escalated the situation even further. I’ve a family member living in a larger city whom I worry about - particularly because they choose to be open about their jewish identity. There have also been threats against the university I study/work at, and against public transit - one of the many reasons that I no longer use it. As such, I tend to keep these sorts of considerations in mind.
However, I’m glad you don’t have to worry about such things.
Okay? And? What’s the point of worrying about what they’re going to do when? You can’t predict or stop it.
I live in the U.S., land of mass shootings and many religious extremists of many stripes. I don’t spend my time worrying about where and when the next mass shooting will be. What’s the point? What good does it do?
I’ll second what @[email protected] wrote, and also elaborate.
Violence from religious extremists has been a problem in Sweden for several years now, and the war in Gaza has escalated the situation even further. I’ve a family member living in a larger city whom I worry about - particularly because they choose to be open about their jewish identity. There have also been threats against the university I study/work at, and against public transit - one of the many reasons that I no longer use it. As such, I tend to keep these sorts of considerations in mind.
However, I’m glad you don’t have to worry about such things.
I don’t “have” to worry about such things because I don’t bother worrying about things that haven’t happened and that I have no evidence will happen.
“There are lots of extremists here” doesn’t mean “one of them is going to bomb Eurovision.”
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What precautions exactly?
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Okay? And? What’s the point of worrying about what they’re going to do when? You can’t predict or stop it.
I live in the U.S., land of mass shootings and many religious extremists of many stripes. I don’t spend my time worrying about where and when the next mass shooting will be. What’s the point? What good does it do?
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And the equivalent of the seat belt here would be what?
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I’m pretty sure worrying won’t save any lives in a catastrophe, so that’s a very poor analogy.
Worrying could lead to measures which might help to avoid/reduced impact/midigate destruction of the next incident.