Frightful? Perhaps. The same sort of frightful that teething pains in a newborn is. To me, that's what this is, darling Peddler. The human race as an individual is starting to look around and see other individuals separate from itself, different from itself, and deciding how to accept them. Granted, it's been going on for a couple of hundred years, but that's okay. Growing up takes time. We'll get there.