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The attacks were heinous and it's horrible that innocent people died, but we can't let the gruesome nature of the attacks prevent us from putting them into cont
by Kinnard 11y ago
The attacks were heinous and it's horrible that innocent people died, but we can't let the gruesome nature of the attacks prevent us from putting them into context—
Nearly four times as many people die per week in the US from automobile accidents: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/13/opinion/117-deaths-each-day.html http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/13/opinion/117-deaths-each-da...
These lives matter just as all lives matter, we need to fight automotive death and all causes of death with the same vigor that we fight terrorism deaths.
We cannot again fall asleep to the pattern of behavior all governments exhibit in the aftermath of events like this.
Snowden woke us up to that.
- pnt12 11y agoTerrorism really lives up to its name, it scares people and makes them act irrationaly to prevent it at all costs. I blame the media and politicians for focusing so much on it. Media act like vultures - the amount of time and specials they dedicate to massacres disgusts me. Many politicians seem to pass any law that might reduce terrorism, without analysing its costs. To clarify, I obviously feel sad for the victims of these massacres. But it we keep trying to prevent them by neglecting every other human basic right, we'll harm our whole society.