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I'm certain that people would get used to it. They seem to live with the fact that every month hundreds of people are killed and maimed in car accidents. The

I'm certain that people would get used to it. They seem to live with the fact that every month hundreds of people are killed and maimed in car accidents. The British got on fairly well during the Irish Troubles, with the fact that the IRA was fairly effective at striking against English targets. You seem to forget that people have a very strong urge to believe that "it won't happen to me".

6d0debc071 13y ago
Well, that's true and I agree with you on the numbers thing - 125 people died in England during the troubles, after which the UK government effectively threw the towel in, and people generally seem to believe that they have some sort of control over their risks in the case of driving. ~ 194 people a month die from car accidents in the UK - which you could be competitive with. I'm not sure at the moment that they'd respond the same way to a continual and chaotic threat of a higher magnitude than the troubles though. I'm not saying that I think they wouldn't get over it, mind. I'm just not sure that there's enough data to choose one way or the other. It seems to me, if you could get a bunch of people to copy you - (and the first order of business if you just wanted to cause as much damage as possible would probably be anonymously mass mailing a guide that let other people do it too) - that a closer analogue would be somewhere like Mexico. But even there the killings aren't precisely random.