Culture of fear

This post replaces chapter 6.
The „Culture of fear” appears in our book, too. In my opinion any student at Matt’s school, who informed the police, overreacts. Just because any student have heard Matt saying these things. Furthermore, Matt wasn’t serious, so if the student would have made sure that Matt is serious and angry at that moment, he/she wouldn’t have informed the police. So in this scene can be seen that there exists the culture of fear. The people get easier afraid of something, though the crime rate decreases. So if the people hear someone making a threat, they believe him/her, though it is apparently that this, what he/she says, can’t be true or serious. The people start thinking about things, which can’t happen, and a consequence could be that the people get afraid of almost all things and then they will just go shopping and won’t do other things. And this again is bad for the economy. So the culture of fear mustn’t be taken too serious, because this would have bad consequences for the future.