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Originally posted by cool_chick
If one was concerned about significant threats, they'd be concerned about things like gun deaths, medical malpractice deaths, automobile deaths, etc......
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Excellent point. I guess the "War on Automobile Deaths" just doesn't have the same ring to it. People don't seem to care that thousands of people die every year due to cigarette smoking, but heaven forbid some idiot tries to light his shoes on fire on an airplane.
It's kinda like AIDS. My lifestyle puts my risks of contracting AIDS at essentially zero, so I don't life in fear on a daily basis that I am going to die of AIDS... I probably have a greater chance of dying of cancer from cigarette smoking than I do of dying in a terrorist attack. And I don't even smoke...
I don't think Islamofascists (or whatever the neat name for them is these days) are really going to attack the US and kill all of us infidels. I don't think they could pull it off. Maybe I'm wrong.
I think the hysteria fuels agendas which keep people in power.
Mike