Maybe that is what Ingram's position should be listed as: threat.
It's as much plea as threat.
Do people see you as threat?
These contrasting ideas — America as utopia, America as threat to civilization — would recur throughout our history.
Business P4 Financial Times BBC chief attacks governance plan as threat to independence.
It's clear, Sony has spotted the rise of the powerful smartphone as threat to its games hardware business.
That activity is increasingly seen as threat to broadcast television, which depends on ad revenue to pay for programs.
As threat perception increases, even looser cultures — those with high tolerance and lower norms — begin to tighten up.
It was a culture that saw people's worth as the present value of what they have hoarded until now, seeing the future as threat more than opportunity.
According to Antti Revonsuo, a Finnish cognitive scientist, dreams may have evolved in humans as "threat simulations," in order to help protect the species.
"The hearing system evolved in part as a warning system, so there is a natural tendency to classify noise as threat," he said.
