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Honestly, why do people think that a terrorist attack like this requires any dramatic changes to society? The fact is that some guys got guns and shot up a buil

by sd8f9iu 12y ago

Honestly, why do people think that a terrorist attack like this requires any dramatic changes to society? The fact is that some guys got guns and shot up a building, in the name of a currently popular, violent ideology. When will we ever be able to completely eradicate this? The number of people killed per year in the Western world due to terrorist attacks is incredibly low. Perhaps we don't need a routing of our security apparatus and freedoms to prevent what, without the inclusion of radical Islam, would be seen as an violent crime. We got two wars in the wake of 9/11, and I don't think there was any actual increased terrorist threat.

rosser 12y ago
Because people are absolutely terrible at rationally evaluating risk. Consider people who are terrified of flying, but think nothing of texting while driving. That's (if slightly exaggerated) a pretty representative example of the general human calculus of risk. The big, scary, but terrifically unlikely event factors more significantly into our fears than the prosaic, equally deadly, but vastly more likely one.
- LLWM 12y ago
  In general, people correctly evaluate risk. The only situations that are completely modeled with a naive expected value are ones that are too simple to occur in real life. That's why things like the St Petersburg lottery are considered "paradoxes" but are easy to humans to understand using intuition.
Cyther606 12y ago
Because shocking attacks get the public's attention. With all eyes on the TV screen, it's the perfect time to introduce public policy changes that strip people of their rights. All the better if I can defend my statements by inciting a sense of nationalism or publicly shared responsibility for preventing future heinous crimes. This is the raw video of the shooting of the French policeman: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bc6_1420632668 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bc6_1420632668 Here it is in slow motion, zoomed in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_c4IUO6h7w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_c4IUO6h7w We are told this is footage of a 7.62mm round fired into a target at point blank range. With no recoil exhibited by the rifle, no blood present anywhere on the scene, and no violent head or body movement on part of the person "shot" at point blank range, it's very possible that blanks were fired and that this is yet another deep event meant to mislead the public into accepting a hidden agenda.
- rosser 12y ago
  Are you for reals calling false-flag on the Charlie Hebdo attack?
  - Cyther606 12y ago
    Quoting Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: > Among these purposes is bringing France back into Washington’s orbit. The French president had recently said that the sanctions against Russia should be terminated. > Hollande was allying himself with French economic interests instead of with Washington’s hegemonic foreign policy. > Another purpose is to stifle the growing European sympathy for the Palestinians and to realign Europe with Israel. > Another purpose is to counter the rising opposition in Europe to more Middle Eastern wars. The American neoconservatives have not completed their agenda. Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, and Saudi Arabia are still standing. > And there can be other purposes not apparent to me. > My recommendation is that you not believe the print and TV media, but think. The failure of Americans to think is why they are 13 years into war and live in a police state. Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts' latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West and How America Was Lost. http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/01/11/suspicions-growing-french-shootings-false-flag-operation/ http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/01/11/suspicions-growin...
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    - untog 12y ago
      Let's be honest with ourselves - there is not one shred of evidence in there. Yes, for the reasons you state, America could have staged a false flag attack. But that's just a list assembled after the fact to suit the narrative the author has already created. "And there can be other purposes not apparent to me." Oh, well, why didn't you say? Wrap this one up as a one and done case, then! It goes without saying that he is also a 9/11 Truther: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Craig_Roberts#September_11.2C_2001_attacks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Craig_Roberts#September_11...

by sd8f9iu 12y ago

rosser 12y ago

Because people are absolutely terrible at rationally evaluating risk. Consider people who are terrified of flying, but think nothing of texting while driving. That's (if slightly exaggerated) a pretty representative example of the general human calculus of risk. The big, scary, but terrifically unlikely event factors more significantly into our fears than the prosaic, equally deadly, but vastly more likely one.

LLWM 12y ago
In general, people correctly evaluate risk. The only situations that are completely modeled with a naive expected value are ones that are too simple to occur in real life. That's why things like the St Petersburg lottery are considered "paradoxes" but are easy to humans to understand using intuition.

Cyther606 12y ago

Because shocking attacks get the public's attention. With all eyes on the TV screen, it's the perfect time to introduce public policy changes that strip people of their rights. All the better if I can defend my statements by inciting a sense of nationalism or publicly shared responsibility for preventing future heinous crimes. This is the raw video of the shooting of the French policeman: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bc6_1420632668 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bc6_1420632668 Here it is in slow motion, zoomed in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_c4IUO6h7w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_c4IUO6h7w We are told this is footage of a 7.62mm round fired into a target at point blank range. With no recoil exhibited by the rifle, no blood present anywhere on the scene, and no violent head or body movement on part of the person "shot" at point blank range, it's very possible that blanks were fired and that this is yet another deep event meant to mislead the public into accepting a hidden agenda.

rosser 12y ago
Are you for reals calling false-flag on the Charlie Hebdo attack?
- Cyther606 12y ago
  Quoting Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: > Among these purposes is bringing France back into Washington’s orbit. The French president had recently said that the sanctions against Russia should be terminated. > Hollande was allying himself with French economic interests instead of with Washington’s hegemonic foreign policy. > Another purpose is to stifle the growing European sympathy for the Palestinians and to realign Europe with Israel. > Another purpose is to counter the rising opposition in Europe to more Middle Eastern wars. The American neoconservatives have not completed their agenda. Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, and Saudi Arabia are still standing. > And there can be other purposes not apparent to me. > My recommendation is that you not believe the print and TV media, but think. The failure of Americans to think is why they are 13 years into war and live in a police state. Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts' latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West and How America Was Lost. http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/01/11/suspicions-growing-french-shootings-false-flag-operation/ http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/01/11/suspicions-growin...
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  - untog 12y ago
    Let's be honest with ourselves - there is not one shred of evidence in there. Yes, for the reasons you state, America could have staged a false flag attack. But that's just a list assembled after the fact to suit the narrative the author has already created. "And there can be other purposes not apparent to me." Oh, well, why didn't you say? Wrap this one up as a one and done case, then! It goes without saying that he is also a 9/11 Truther: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Craig_Roberts#September_11.2C_2001_attacks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Craig_Roberts#September_11...