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> There is no expectation of danger while spectating at the Boston Marathon. There also is no expectation of getting struck by lightning while spectating at th
by marknutter 14y ago
> There is no expectation of danger while spectating at the Boston Marathon.
There also is no expectation of getting struck by lightning while spectating at the Boston Marathon, yet that is much more likely to happen than getting hit by a terrorist's bomb.
- tkahn6 14y agoThat is a true statement, but what is your point?
- marknutter 14y agoThe OP said "It's not every day that people have their legs blown off while enjoying a public social event." It's an obvious appeal to emotion that doesn't refute the point that terrorist attacks are so infrequent that the average person ought to worry more about, say, slipping and falling in their bath tubs than getting killed by a terrorist.
- tkahn6 14y agoI still don't see how that speaks to my point, which has to do with an expectation of danger in different contexts. So I suppose this would be a red herring on your part, if we're accusing each other of logical fallacies.
- kevincennis 14y agoThere might be some level of expectation of getting hit by lightning during a lightning storm at the Boston Marathon.
- homosaur 14y agoPerhaps then we can say there should be some expectation of terrorism as long as the US continues to elect leaders that pursue this sort of foreign policy in the Middle East.
- potatolicious 14y agoYes, which is why we don't hold large public events in the middle of a thunderstorm. And when a thunderstorm rolls into major public events, we do evacuate them. Unless you're trying to say that the odds of being struct by lightning while spectating the Boston Marathon, on a clear sunny day, is high.
- marknutter 14y agoThe odds are higher that a storm will unexpectedly roll in and strike you with lightning than you getting blown up by a terrorist, yes.
- sk5t 14y agoIt doesn't matter. People can go indoors if thunderclouds form. Terrorist attacks freak people out because such attacks make people feel powerless to control the risk.
- ra 14y ago> There also is no expectation of getting struck by lightning while spectating at the Boston Marathon, yet that is much more likely to happen than getting hit by a terrorist's bomb. Not sure where you're getting your data from.