Our irrationality in the face of minor but "scary" risks (vs. chronic ones) is brilliant for Schneier to point out -- it's really one of the pivots on which the

Our irrationality in the face of minor but "scary" risks (vs. chronic ones) is brilliant for Schneier to point out -- it's really one of the pivots on which the whole surveillance issue rests. Throwing away our freedom to prevent rare, statistically insignificant events is equally stupid. By doing so we are risking a much greater danger -- the chronic danger of a corrupt and possibly deadly police state.