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Why? It’s likely the reason why we have seen terrorist attacks where people drive into crowds of people. Cars and trucks is everywhere, its easily accessible. I

Why? It’s likely the reason why we have seen terrorist attacks where people drive into crowds of people. Cars and trucks is everywhere, its easily accessible. I would argue that the other way around is the dangerous assumption, that people will NOT use the easiest accessible means to hurt other people.

rumanator 6y ago
> Why? Because the goal is reaching the goal, not the process. Undoubtedly, if s terrorist group has access to this stuff, they won't reject the idea of using it just because driving a van or yielding a knife might appear simpler. We're talking about lines of thinking that planned hijacking three commercial airplanes simultaneously to fly them into high visibility targets. How is spreading poison something that's outlandish when compared to that? And also, arguably this case is already the doing of a terrorist group. I mean, the end goal obviously was to get opposites to think twice for fear of risking their lives.
- occamrazor 6y ago
  Bin Laden’s Al Qaida was very unusual in its long term planning. Most terrorist attacks by other groups have been unsophisticated.
  - ardy42 6y ago
    > Bin Laden’s Al Qaida was very unusual in its long term planning. Most terrorist attacks by other groups have been unsophisticated. And, IIRC, most recent terrorist attacks have been committed by isolated individuals who radicalized, and they only used means that a motivated regular person could assemble. They didn't have the material backing of any organization sophisticated enough to manufacture a military nerve agent. Though, I suppose if a specialist like a chemist got radicalized, then we might have a lone-wolf attack with a sophisticated poison.
    - anonAndOn 6y ago
      It has happened in the past. Japan had a sarin attack[0] and the US had the anthrax attacks[1]. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_(Japanese_cult) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_(Japanese_cult) [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks
- 8note 6y ago
  The simplicity comes from a forcing function though. Complex attacks involve more people and are thus more likely to be found out.
- anonAndOn 6y ago
  nitpick: they hijacked FOUR planes but the fourth group of hijackers couldn't control the mob about to rip them apart so aborted the mission. [0] [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_93 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_93
thewinnie 6y ago
But what if we deal with a country-terrorist problem?

rumanator 6y ago

> Why? Because the goal is reaching the goal, not the process. Undoubtedly, if s terrorist group has access to this stuff, they won't reject the idea of using it just because driving a van or yielding a knife might appear simpler. We're talking about lines of thinking that planned hijacking three commercial airplanes simultaneously to fly them into high visibility targets. How is spreading poison something that's outlandish when compared to that? And also, arguably this case is already the doing of a terrorist group. I mean, the end goal obviously was to get opposites to think twice for fear of risking their lives.

occamrazor 6y ago
Bin Laden’s Al Qaida was very unusual in its long term planning. Most terrorist attacks by other groups have been unsophisticated.
- ardy42 6y ago
  > Bin Laden’s Al Qaida was very unusual in its long term planning. Most terrorist attacks by other groups have been unsophisticated. And, IIRC, most recent terrorist attacks have been committed by isolated individuals who radicalized, and they only used means that a motivated regular person could assemble. They didn't have the material backing of any organization sophisticated enough to manufacture a military nerve agent. Though, I suppose if a specialist like a chemist got radicalized, then we might have a lone-wolf attack with a sophisticated poison.
  - anonAndOn 6y ago
    It has happened in the past. Japan had a sarin attack[0] and the US had the anthrax attacks[1]. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_(Japanese_cult) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_(Japanese_cult) [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks
8note 6y ago
The simplicity comes from a forcing function though. Complex attacks involve more people and are thus more likely to be found out.
anonAndOn 6y ago
nitpick: they hijacked FOUR planes but the fourth group of hijackers couldn't control the mob about to rip them apart so aborted the mission. [0] [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_93 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_93

thewinnie 6y ago

But what if we deal with a country-terrorist problem?