"using one set of circumstances weighed against another to make one look more serious."
Is a perfect example of what I am responding to Andy.
"You admitted filling your pants when someone gave you a dirty look on the London Underground!"
^ this is the example that was used to indicate how serious another may be.
For me to then talk on this doesn't make me guilty, but it does make me involved.
Anyhow, even still, talking about how scared people may feel in their own home, using statistics of death, is comparable to how some may feel on the street in london, compared to statistics on death, is it not?