Michelle Goldberg argues that accusing both sides of incivility overlooks the disproportionate danger of right-wing violence.
The reason for the disproportionate danger from bats, according to Charles Trimarchi, director of the rabies lab at the New York State Department of Health, is that anyone bitten by a raccoon, for instance, is sure to know it.
As Britain's biggest bank revealed it was putting aside $367m£218m8m) to cover compensation for mistakes in loan statements to UK customers, Douglas Flint said there was an "observable and growing danger of disproportionate risk aversion".
Douglas Flint, the chairman of HSBC, on Monday used unusually strong language to warn of an "observable and growing danger of disproportionate risk aversion" among staff who were fearful of fines.
"There is, however, an observable and growing danger of disproportionate risk aversion creeping into decision-making in our businesses as individuals, facing uncertainty as to what may be criticised with hindsight and perceiving a zero-tolerance of error, seek to protect themselves and the firm from future censure".
And premature babies face a disproportionate risk.
Some viruses, including a recent one called Klez, even attempt to disable anti-virus software on machines they infect, or spread by posing as anti-virus updates.Viruses are a nuisance, but the coverage they receive is disproportionate to the danger they pose.
Most members of school communities felt that the response required of them was disproportionate to the danger posed to the community by the pandemic.
The danger is disproportionate to the percentage of threatened species, with the authors warning the loss of giants would "disrupt ecosystems for millions of years even at levels of taxonomic loss far below those of previous mass extinctions".
Nonetheless, it is clear from the Ugandan experience of 2000/2001 that the responses to an outbreak can be very dramatic, and perhaps disproportionate to the actual danger presented.
The Ugandan experience of 2000/2001 demonstrates that responses to an Ebola outbreak can be very dramatic, but perhaps disproportionate to the actual danger presented.
