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The headline of the English translation is "The Terror Attacks That Changed Norway". Did anything actually change? In the US, we're accustomed to mass killing
by rectang 5y ago
The headline of the English translation is "The Terror Attacks That Changed Norway". Did anything actually change?
In the US, we're accustomed to mass killings not changing anything, and I'm curious if Utoya was different.
- BBC-vs-neolibs 5y agoIt changed the Labour party, otherwise I don't see any evidence it changed Norway much.
- donquichotte 5y agoMaybe nothing needs to change -- it appears that this event was a statistical outlier, and making everybody's life worse to prevent low-probability events (e.g., flying after 9/11) is not necessarily a cost that a society is willing to bear.