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Any terrorist attack in France will almost certainly happen in the center of one of the major cities, most likely Paris. So if you live in the center of Paris y

Any terrorist attack in France will almost certainly happen in the center of one of the major cities, most likely Paris. So if you live in the center of Paris your micromort should be much higher, and if you live in a small village it will be much smaller. Also the micromort calculation quoted in the article is for being killed in a single terrorist attack in which 153 people die. If you think there are likely to be several such attacks over the next few years then that increases the micromort value higher.

tedks 11y ago
This assumes there is some incentive for terrorists to attack big cities. It could be strategically valuable for terrorists to just randomly attack tiny villages, where the response time for emergency services equipped to deal with heavily-armed moderately-trained militants is long enough for them to wipe basically the whole place out, and after which they can strike fear into any village and cause the governments to spend a ton turning all of them into fortresses.