After the terror attack in Angola, why don't we just go ahead and cancel the soccer World Cup in South Africa? And, with the Mumbai massacres in mind, maybe it's advisable to skip New Delhi's Commonwealth Games. And to avoid any potential clashes with pro-Tibet activists, perhaps it's best that we also don't attend the Asian Games in Guangzhou.
This year is a particularly risky one in sports, with the Fifa showcase held for the first time on African soil in June and July, India's inaugural Commonwealth Games in October and the Asian Games staged outside a capital city for only the third time in its 59-year history in November.
If we want to put security above everything else, the best thing is to stay at home, lock all the doors, turn on the burglar alarms and hide under the quilt covers. But then again, that could leave us open to an attack from deadly bed bugs. The truth is that all sorts of terrible things can happen to us whether we leave our front door or not.
Since the horrific January 8 terrorist attack on the Togo soccer squad in Cabinda as they travelled to the Africa Cup of Nations, we have heard all kinds of hysterical nonsense about what this means to security, two borders away in South Africa. And fear being fear - sometimes called 'False Evidence Appearing Real' - there also seems to be a groundswell of concern about the safety at other forthcoming sports events.
Danny Jordaan, the chief executive of the South Africa 2010 organising committee, got it 100 per cent correct when he said that claims that a similar breach would happen during the World Cup had no basis in reality.
Having attended last month's final draw in Cape Town, I caught a glimpse of the intense level of official security for a tournament that is now less than five months away. If anything, the sad events in Cabinda will effectively reduce the risk of a repeat in South Africa because officials will be more vigilant.
'To link Angola with South Africa would be the same as saying that because of problems in Iraq, people should not be travelling to Hong Kong,' said Ryan Cooper, of Kick Off, an African soccer magazine. 'They are two different places, thousands of miles apart, with their own security and strategies to battle any potential problem.'