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It has parallels everywhere. How can you stop people poisoning food in a shop; walking into a school and stabbing a bunch of young kids; irradiating coins; deli
by superflyguy 9y ago
It has parallels everywhere. How can you stop people poisoning food in a shop; walking into a school and stabbing a bunch of young kids; irradiating coins; deliberately driving cars into people; spreading sexual diseases; closing organisations with bomb threats etc. There's plenty of things you could do with practically zero chance of getting caught (and not everyone is worried about that) and for a low cost. You can't run a society that has a 100% success rate of preventing these sorts of things; you have to trust that they won't do it.
- seanp2k2 9y agoto your point: chasing terrorism is like trying to solve for all these (and many more) nefarious ways in which society isn't looking for wrongdoing. It's basically impossible to safeguard against every type of threat. Manage to lock down one sufficiently so that it's no longer attractive to accomplish ${evil_stuff}? Move on to the next one. We now see people getting run down with large trucks, since air travel is much more restricted. Everyone still suffers from restricted air travel, but will the TSA start inspecting every car driving over a bridge or an on-ramp now to prevent these new attack vectors? I sure hope not.