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The "more people die in car accidents" is a moot argument. Terrorism hits a nerve car accidents or w/e can't. Here is the thing: When driving a car, you have s
by dgut 9y ago
The "more people die in car accidents" is a moot argument. Terrorism hits a nerve car accidents or w/e can't.
Here is the thing: When driving a car, you have some level of control of your destinity. Take precaution, use the seat belts, children seat, and so on... You know there is risk involved, but that you also can lower that risk.
Worrying that your next train trip, museum visit, or national day celebration will end up fatally, changes your way of life. You have zero control over that. You worry about those dearest to you.
- spangry 9y agoI guess a more analogous phenomena would be sudden death due to various medical conditions. Just to pick a random one (not the only one): spontaneous coronary artery dissection. Statistics are rather difficult to come by on this, but assuming the US population incidence is 0.28% [0] of all 735,000 'heart attacks' per year in the US [1], with a mortality rate of 60% (wikipedia says 70% but that number is iffy), that's 1235 random "sudden deaths" per year from just one non-preventable and non-predictable medical condition alone. So I suspect the more general point, that statistically you are much more likely to be randomly killed by "not terrorism", is probably a valid one. [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3249260/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3249260/ [1] https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/heart_attack.htm https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/heart_attack.htm