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Terrorism kills 2 people per year in the U.S. and we spend 100s of billions. The difference is large companies make more money building weapons than large compa
by throwaway55554 7y ago
Terrorism kills 2 people per year in the U.S. and we spend 100s of billions. The difference is large companies make more money building weapons than large companies make treating the flue (or mental health).
Edit: The point is, it's all about money. There's no rational reason to spend so much on terrorism and so little on mental health, yet we do.
- downerending 7y agoNot going to claim that that money is all well-spent, but terrorism (and security in general) is a rather different problem. A single failure can cost thousands of lives, and huge knock-on effects, as we've sadly seen.
- lawlorino 7y agoI disagree, as I posted elsewhere in this thread these annual death rates are drawn from different distributions. The annual suicide rate is normally distributed, in other words the expected number of deaths will be around the same number each year. Terrorism and pandemics are long-tailed meaning a non-negligible probability that the rate shoots up to something much higher than your quoted two per year.