It can act as a gut check for somebody.
The premier did not announce a policy replacing emergency departments with paramedics.
What people do is let their emotions get the best of them when they buy and sell. People often make the mistake of buying stocks only after they go up and not when they are bargains. There is a quote from Warren Buffett that Americans like to buy everything on sale except stocks.
It's only a partial solution, ... It's like they're saying, 'We'll still sell you poison, but we'll give you an antidote too.'
It made us all feel degraded for them to put a fence that is so high that we can't even see what's going on on the other side of town.
If you think about investing as owning piece of a business, obviously a lower price is better than a higher price, as long as nothing is fundamentally wrong with the company.
The incident is very unusual. If this cat had meant to do harm it could have and would have.