> We worry about terrorist attacks and necrotizing fasciitis, but not much about heart disease or car crashes. But in 2011, 17 US citizens worldwide died as a

> We worry about terrorist attacks and necrotizing fasciitis, but not much about heart disease or car crashes. But in 2011, 17 US citizens worldwide died as a result of terrorism and approximately 150 from necrotizing fasciitis. There were nearly 600,000 deaths resulting from heart disease and over 32,000 from car crashes. > Based on current data, you are about 35,000 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack. So everyone smart says that we worry about terrorism way too much, and so far, they’ve been right. Yes, thanks to our natural preference of exceptions, rarities, and oddities which the media fuels us with. However this ignores any mitigation (and their costs) being done on these dangers. A proper risk analysis includes these. > But another possibility is that we engineer the perfect happiness drug, with no bad side effects, and no one wants to do anything but lay in bed and take this drug all day, sapping all ambition from the human race. There are a lot of other possibilities too, and it’s very hard to think of them because we don’t have much experience with what's about to happen. I'm not at all frightened by that because all drugs in past failed on that one. There is no up without a down. On top of that, human beings want to be useful, they want to give their life purpose. Even if that involves pain. Laying all day in bed (or in quarantine) feels awful.