Re:UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance
by jstanley on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @05:11AM
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The hundreds of millions that have died since 9/11 are in no way connected to 9/11. You're misunderstanding me. Hundreds of millions is the total deaths across the entire human population since then. And those people are each just as worthy as the 3,000 that died in 9/11.
Re:UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance
by contras1970 on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @02:34AM
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so anti-terrorism hysteria is warranted because anti-terrorism hysteria has already triggered an avalanche of death and trillions of dollars spent.
No matter how unlikely an extreme event might be, if/when it does occur it has earth shattering effects due to the complexity of the world. This is why we need to be so vigilant in protecting ourselves against these threats.
I finished with "But September 11th came along and changed the West and Middle East for decades." That is the point. 9/11 was tragic enough, but it triggered an avalanche of death and trillions of dollars spent. These sort of attacks have non-linear effects that cannot be predicted.
You originally stated you are more likely to die falling down the stairs therefore "Bomb attacks are not something you should be concerned by." My response is that terror attacks are like what we see in 9/11. Considering that event resulted in hundreds of millions of death due to the complexities of the world AND the risk distribution and magnitude is completely incomparable to known risks and their distributions, it is nonsense to dismiss the risks as you are more likely to die falling down the stairs.