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I said I wanted to avoid terrorist attacks, not be near them.
by chronic940 9y ago
I said I wanted to avoid terrorist attacks, not be near them.
- lacampbell 9y agoThis. I'm not visiting Western Europe anymore, the writing is on the wall.
- brokenmachine 9y agoIt's sad how much effect these isolated attacks can have. Hundreds of thousands dead from car crashes and smoking and whatever else, nobody cares, it's expected. A few homemade bombs, and that causes people to change their whole outlook on a country? It doesn't make sense. I wish there was some way we could not report on terrorist attacks, like we don't report suicides. Sensational news reports just blow things right out of proportion to their actual importance at the country scale. It's hard to do, and maybe not realistic, but there has to be some solution where these asshole terrorists don't win. And they win as our freedoms are limited as well. A few crazy people shouldn't be able to hold countries to ransom. I don't know the solution but it just sucks.
- Veen 9y agoThat's a bit like a European saying they're avoiding the US beacause of all the spree killings and school shootings. The risk is minuscule for any particular person.
- dang 9y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14405388 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14405388 and marked it off-topic.