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>>> How many people know someone who died in a terrorist attack? You may not want to pose this question to a New Yorker. I get your point, but it is a bit of

>>> How many people know someone who died in a terrorist attack? You may not want to pose this question to a New Yorker. I get your point, but it is a bit of a loaded question.

skidoo 11y ago
He asked about people dying in a terrorist attack, not in clandestine government activities.
- iplaybilliards 11y ago
  In support of this, please see September Clues on YouTube. While we cannot say what exactly happened on 9/11, September Clues proves without a doubt what didn't happen on 9/11.
click170 11y ago
It may be a loaded question but his point stands, fear is not based on rationality or we would be spending tens of billions of dollars a year trying to prevent car accidents that is currently being spent "fighting terrorism".
klodolph 11y ago
NYC population is 8.4M. Auto fatality rate in U.S. is ~12/10,000/year since 2001. If NYC follows US, then ~10k die per year in auto accidents. The term "loaded question" refers to questions which presume facts. For example, "why did you kill him?" Is loaded because it presumes that you did kill him. The question you are referring to is not loaded.
- adventured 11y ago
  That's not even remotely close, on either number. There were 294 motor vehicle fatalities in NYC in 2013. The US has been averaging about ~32,000 motor vehicle deaths per year the last several years. Your 12/10000 rate would indicate 360,000 people per year; that's off by a factor of ten. * http://dmv.ny.gov/statistic/2013nyc.pdf http://dmv.ny.gov/statistic/2013nyc.pdf * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in...
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madaxe_again 11y ago
I knew a bunch of people who died in the wtc (Lehman), I was one tube behind the one that blew up in London. I still think the best response to terror is to shrug it off and get on with your life. Spent 7/7 sat at a pub in the sunshine.
- zimpenfish 11y ago
  Yeah, similar experience here on 7/7 (although I fortuitously walked instead of getting the tube that day, I do know a bunch of people who were close). I wasn't far off the centre of Manchester when they did the Arndale either. All you can do, as you correctly point out, is shrug and carry on.

>>> How many people know someone who died in a terrorist attack? You may not want to pose this question to a New Yorker. I get your point, but it is a bit of a loaded question.

skidoo 11y ago

He asked about people dying in a terrorist attack, not in clandestine government activities.

iplaybilliards 11y ago
In support of this, please see September Clues on YouTube. While we cannot say what exactly happened on 9/11, September Clues proves without a doubt what didn't happen on 9/11.

click170 11y ago

It may be a loaded question but his point stands, fear is not based on rationality or we would be spending tens of billions of dollars a year trying to prevent car accidents that is currently being spent "fighting terrorism".

klodolph 11y ago

NYC population is 8.4M. Auto fatality rate in U.S. is ~12/10,000/year since 2001. If NYC follows US, then ~10k die per year in auto accidents. The term "loaded question" refers to questions which presume facts. For example, "why did you kill him?" Is loaded because it presumes that you did kill him. The question you are referring to is not loaded.

adventured 11y ago
That's not even remotely close, on either number. There were 294 motor vehicle fatalities in NYC in 2013. The US has been averaging about ~32,000 motor vehicle deaths per year the last several years. Your 12/10000 rate would indicate 360,000 people per year; that's off by a factor of ten. * http://dmv.ny.gov/statistic/2013nyc.pdf http://dmv.ny.gov/statistic/2013nyc.pdf * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in...

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madaxe_again 11y ago

I knew a bunch of people who died in the wtc (Lehman), I was one tube behind the one that blew up in London. I still think the best response to terror is to shrug it off and get on with your life. Spent 7/7 sat at a pub in the sunshine.

zimpenfish 11y ago
Yeah, similar experience here on 7/7 (although I fortuitously walked instead of getting the tube that day, I do know a bunch of people who were close). I wasn't far off the centre of Manchester when they did the Arndale either. All you can do, as you correctly point out, is shrug and carry on.