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You have a good point. But we don't know if the government agencies are actually preventing an even higher amount of deaths. Or we are sacrificing freedoms for
by edgartaor 9y ago
You have a good point. But we don't know if the government agencies are actually preventing an even higher amount of deaths. Or we are sacrificing freedoms for nothing.
- thescriptkiddie 9y agoIn all likelihood, we are sacrificing freedoms for nothing. https://theintercept.com/2015/11/17/u-s-mass-surveillance-has-no-record-of-thwarting-large-terror-attacks-regardless-of-snowden-leaks/ https://theintercept.com/2015/11/17/u-s-mass-surveillance-ha... http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2010/11/does_the_tsa_ever_catch_terrorists.html http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20... http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-aclu-tsa-20170207-story.html http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-aclu-tsa-20170207-stor... http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/03/opinions/abend-tsa-screening-failure/ http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/03/opinions/abend-tsa-screening-f...
- Bakary 9y agoEven if say the amount of casualties triple, that's still a rounding error compared to heart disease, suicide, car crashes, and a number of other sources of massive suffering and shortened lives.