Originally Posted By: Faldage
We run into the same problem here we usually run into. We play around with related aspects of the thing we are after. A lot of things can be called exaggerating or overreacting without having anything at all to do with danger.


Faldage, I meant overreacting to or exaggerating the danger of something, overstating it either accidentally or deliberately. I'm still trying to define what we are talking about rather than suggesting an answer to the question (since Candy vetoed my suggestions grin) . The focus of discussion seems to be on the danger, and I think that to answer the question more attention needs to be paid to the distortion of that danger.

Last edited by Tromboniator; 01/10/2012 8:41 AM.