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On the rare occurrence that the suspect is armed with and has deployed homemade explosive devices on two separate occasions, the first in a very public setting?
by bsg75 14y ago
On the rare occurrence that the suspect is armed with and has deployed homemade explosive devices on two separate occasions, the first in a very public setting? Yes.
- jrockway 14y agoThen the terrorists have won. Now all anyone needs to do to cost the economy a billion dollars is fill a pressure cooker with some marbles and black powder. Instead of killing 3 people, he destroys the lifetime value of hundreds. It's like DNS amplification attacks, but in real life. Great...
- afterburner 14y agoThey caught the guys within days, and the suspects didn't get very far at all. I'm pretty sure Boston, and all its residents, won. If the US can't afford billions of dollars to prevent the murder of potentially dozens more innocents and the extremely quick capture of such dangerous criminals, then what the heck is the point of all that money.
- bsg75 14y ago> he destroys the lifetime value of hundreds Lifetime? Now that is an amplification.
- jellicle 14y agoNot in the slightest. Humans live for perhaps 30,000 days total. If you make 30,000 humans waste a day, you've destroyed one life in its entirety. If you make 720,000 humans waste an hour, you've destroyed one life. Security theater in the U.S. has cost many thousands of lives in the past ten years, for nothing.
- carbocation 14y agoI don't think your comment is a substantive response to bsg75's point. He started with "On the rare occurrence..." Exceptions can be made for exceptional circumstances. If, God forbid, terrorism on US soil becomes commonplace, then his point is no longer applicable (since his point is about rare things).