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Relative risk of terrorism
Jeffrey
Veteran
http://megmclain.com/2011/09/22/new-infographic-on-the-risk-of-terrorism/
For example: a random person is eight times more likely to be killed by a police officer than in a terrorist attack.
For example: a random person is eight times more likely to be killed by a police officer than in a terrorist attack.
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I personally find it interesting how concerned people are over the risk of terrorist attacks when there are so many things that are overlooked yet more dangerous. I certainly grant that some attempt is made by wise people to prevent each of those events. Yet people are willing to go to war to prevent such an unlikely accident.
Risk sells--whether it's well-founded risk, or well-promoted risk.
I look at the above list and I see a number of things that are my government's responsibility to prevent, including terrorism. I also see a number of things that are my personal responsibility to permit.
Needless death ought to be prevented.
Think how school lunch programs which serves hotdog, tator tots, and ketchup as a vegetable could be improved to prevent habits leading to heart disease which is 17,000 times more likely than dying in a terrorist attack. But we don't have the resources to serve a balanced lunch in our schools.
THE SKY IS FALLING!!! THE SKY IS FALLING!!! THE SKY IS FALLING!!! THE SKY IS FALLING!!!
2. Why should the government subsidize colonoscopies? Of my four best friends here in Colorado Springs...I am having a colonoscopy on Monday at noon, another had hers last Tuesday, another is having hers a week from Monday, another has had 3, and yet another had hers a year ago.
1. Why should the government finance school lunches?
2. What will the kids actually eat? I know...I watched most of the nutritious stuff go in the trash cans, while the kids chose lousy pizza and french fries, etc., while almost no students went into the salad bar.
There was a recent story on the improvement on school lunches that will be coming up as of next fall. Wonder how the kids will like pizza on whole wheat crust?
In regard to the colonoscopy issue, yes, some may not be getting them who need them. But again, particularly in the budget crunch this country is in, is it the government's responsibility to pay for everyone's health costs. I'm all for the Obama health plan (particularly since the GOP can't even come up with an alternative), but that is not the same as saying the government should pay for everyone's health care.
Regarding telly's point it is a good one but I think it is hard to know how many terrorist attacks are prevented by TSA scanners for example.
What if the question were say more like 'Whats the risk of being significantly physically or mentally traumatised from a terrorist attack'.
Its challenging reconciling the overall response however - when foreign policy involves homeland strikes abroad with no risk of reprisal, the only option for retaliation is a small cell attack on lesser protected targets.
The initial foreign policy and relative strength of the party dictates the response.
Everyone really really need to just stop and start talking to each other with a clean slate. If you stand back and look in, its rediculous...
You simply cannot provide a nutritious and delicious meal for students with what the taxpayers are willing to foot. And if we eliminated all funding for anti-terrorism, the taxpayers still wouldn't fund the school lunch program anymore than they do now. And should we? Shouldn't parents feed their own children?
One meditation I do is sometimes I am standing still and the man next to me stands still too and then my neighbour and then the street and then the town and then the city and then the country and then the world... everyone standing still just being in that moment - we all put down the guns, the knives, the money, the clothes, the jewellery the hate, the words and stand still together - one day when I move again we'll all start with a clean slate.
@all, I hadn't thought of the relationship of the terrorist attacks to the economy. That is a huge point.
Really I didn't post this entirely with a big agenda. I just had some thoughts when looking at the stats.
Nothing has increased our risk more than the bombing of Iraqi, Afghan and Pakistani civilians over the past ten years. We have created enemies out of thousands of families who did not used to be our enemy. If a kid's father or mother was killed by an American bomb or one of my fellow soldiers, who could ever blame that child for wanting revenge?
It is insanity.
What would have been a better plan than taking out the Taliban who were protecting the terrorist operations ?