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A. I don't understand the comparison. Crime is different than terror. For example some of the highest value terror targets are where the highest density of p
by hotpockets 13y ago
A. I don't understand the comparison. Crime is different than terror. For example some of the highest value terror targets are where the highest density of people are. Obviously people aren't moving away from city centers. Crime on the other hand is associated with poverty and is not committed by terrorists. People who are capable move away, sometimes just a few miles away.
B. I don't undestand the following types of argument:
1. people are ignorant of something and have irrational fears about it.
2. Lets spend a bunch of money so they feel better.
What ever happened to education?
- rayiner 13y agoYou're overanalyzing my post. My point is simply that you can't count up number of deaths to compare two problems. One murder puts a far bigger strain on the social fabric than one old person dying of heart disease. The fact that people in a city of almost 3 million people freak out over ~500 murders, compared to probably thousands dying of heart disease, a year is evidence of that fact.
- hotpockets 13y agoPerhaps, but how do you know it puts a far bigger strain? Certainly the family of the victim freaks out, but the communities stress response is unknown to me. A sudden onset illness to a close family member is also calamitous. I'm also not saying its as easy as the numbers I threw together. Its just a ballpark estimate, until someone comes along and gives a better estimate.