We may have our reasons to kill an individual, or even a group of individuals, whom we perceive to be a threat to ourselves.
When we worry, we are dwelling on possible threats to ourselves rather than simply using our cognitive resources to figure a way out of a difficult situation.
What about a threat we created ourselves?
Thrown among the Others — the foreigners hated for their seeming strangeness as much as for their threat — we find ourselves in the morally demanding but exhilarating position of rooting for them.
Once we learned to see our partners' individual relationship together as a strength and not a threat, we found ourselves released from the trap of jealousy and insecurity and that let us nurture and grow a deepening love.
However, it is also important that, by legislating to address the terrorist threat, we do not ourselves destroy the very democratic freedoms that we are seeking to protect".
Reviewing the album for NME, Peter Robinson wrote: "If we're honest with ourselves, the threat of a new Cardigans opus has hardly had the world on the edge of its collective record-buying seat.
"The threat environment we find ourselves in today is as bad as it was last summer, the summer before Sept. 11," Mr. Tenet said in testimony that stunned many in Washington.
"The threat environment we find ourselves in today is as bad as it was last summer, the summer before Sept. 11," Mr. Tenet told the joint intelligence committees investigating the attacks.
We have to get about the business of protecting the country with the private sector, the chiefs of police, the state and locals now, because the threat environment we find ourselves in today is as bad as it was last summer, the summer before 9/11.
