If you were trapped at an upper window of a burning building and a fireman appeared at the top of a ladder to save you, or were marooned on a roof in a flood or being dug out of the wreckage of an earthquake, would you (a) scramble to the safe arms of your rescuer or (b) question him before doing so, to make sure his attitudes and opinions were consistent with your own, to avoid the risk of feeling even more threatened by ‘prejudice’ than you were by the disaster he was trying to save you from?
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