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For whatever reason, our brains developed the inclination/compulsion to imagine scenarios which greatly improved our odds of survival in the wild. In a biological sense, I figure stories and the like trigger that reward center in a way. Why people like different stories would come down to brain chemistry.

It’s the equivalent of the nationalistic party of any country.

They didn’t invent nationalism.

And how would you propose they alert the public, but exclude future criminals? Or should they just let people in peril call a useless number?

The content doesn’t matter in the slightest.

I might if Russia had a vested interest in taking my socks, and the dryer had a history of justifying Russia’s sock stealing.