Original sentence: In one isolated incident a woman was pushed onto the tracks of the New York subway when she ignored a harasser.In the United States, the most common form of street harassment is staring which requires the victim to avert their gaze to avoid conflict and/or more aggressive harassment.Such principles are often invoked to justify a wide range of political positions.When harassed, many women fear their unfavourable reaction may anger the harasser
Edited sentence: (Cities are known to have a higher prevalence of mentally unstable individuals.) When harassed, many women fear their unfavourable reaction may anger the harasser.In one isolated incident a woman was pushed onto the tracks of the New York subway when she ignored a harasser,  just as people, both men and women, are the target of random acts of senseless violence every day in the city.In the United States, the most common form of street harassment is staring which some say "requires" the victim to avert their gaze to avoid conflict and/or more aggressive harassment.Other analysts point out the danger of using a politically-loaded word such as "terrorism," since it would imply that street harassers are terrorists and because street harassment does not generally involve murder, a usual defining point between civil disobedience and terrorism.Such principles are often invoked to justify a wide range of political positions , although the concept of a "stealth conservative" is itself a politically-charged idea.The refusal of many activists to accept that extremist feminist agendas challenge basic principles of democracy can make mainstream political thinkers less willing to engage, rather than ignore, the activists.Those skeptical of the existence of a widespread problem point out that learning to control one's emotions, including rage, is part of growing up, and that anti-street harassment activists tend to be young rather than older women, who have presumably learned a better understanding of human nature and sexuality