Distress

How do you distinguish between private distress and public distress?

What do you know about political distress?

How do you assess the causes of distress?

How do you attempt to alleviate distress?

All quality journalism is associated with answering those four questions.

Civility is associated with the prevention of distress.

Where have you been investing in thoughtful discussions, and with whom, and for what purpose(s)? 

Thoughtful discussions express civility beautifully and help to alleviate distress.

What do you know about civility in terms of ethics, and in terms of community?

Do you think prisons, penal transportation, financial punishments, media coverage or societal civility provides the most effective way to deter crime?

Preventing distress is often associated with the prevention of criminal activity.

What has your social and historical research revealed to you about the relationship between freedom and certainty? 

Perhaps you believe that freedom and certainty prevent distress.

Who, as far as you are aware, is involved in providing certainty through civility?

Who, in your view, is properly understanding distress and acting wisely in relation to it?