>My chance of being injured by terrorism is infinitesimal to the very real chance of losing civil rights and privacy I value. It's remotely small compared to y

>My chance of being injured by terrorism is infinitesimal to the very real chance of losing civil rights and privacy I value. It's remotely small compared to your chance of dying in a traffic accident too [1], and we don't give up our freedoms for that. Either people making cognitive bias misjudgements [2], or intentionally manipulating them. [1]: http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristics_in_judgment_and_decision_making https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristics_in_judgment_and_dec...