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Alas, mortality does not seem to be relevant to how seriously people consider a threat. Look at the Boston Marathon bombings: 3 dead, total. And yet the reactio
by lhc- 13y ago
Alas, mortality does not seem to be relevant to how seriously people consider a threat. Look at the Boston Marathon bombings: 3 dead, total. And yet the reaction has not been to see it as a relatively nonserious threat (how many people died in car accidents that same day?).
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- greyfade 13y agoWe Americans are a panicked bunch. We scare easily the last decade or so. It has nothing to do with actual risk here. It's all about "protecting us from the terr'ists." Never mind the fact that the terrorists we fear so much don't even exist or are too incompetent or uneducated to carry out anything truly dangerous.
- EpicEng 13y agoWhile I agree with your point about the sensationalism of "terrorism" over the past decade, I wouldn't go as far to say that "they don't really exist". I mean, I obviously don't know any more than what I hear from the media, but they certainly succeeded in pulling off a pretty complicated and deadly attack at peat once.