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“We’ve known that birds are very sensitive to smoke for a long time. Think about canaries in the coal mine, right?”

Ironically, even as that has occurred, we’ve grown more sensitive to new threats, creating the widespread illusion that the world has grown more dangerous, when literally the opposite is true.

Your basic argument is simple: Our evolutionary past makes us sensitive to harm, but people don't agree about the threats we see today.

"Cousin marriage is an important cultural practice in many parts of the world, and legislation should be sensitive to the social and familial values that underlie it."

The colonists cast about for another means of ensuring that these judges would be independent, sensitive to local interests, and not entirely beholden to the king.