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To: koan who wrote (120549)7/1/2016 6:15:43 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (2) of 219234
 
It is like people not understanding probability. The fear of terrorists is irrational. One is about 10,000+ times as likely to die in a car than by a terrorist.


Number of dead from car crashes in USA = 30,000 per year.

Dead from terrorists in USA = 300 per year

That's 1 in 100 not 10,000+ times as likely. You were right that people don't understand probability.

But you also ignored a more important issue. Usefulness of cars = phenomenal. Usefulness of terrorists = useless people with negative value.

Fear of jihad terrorists is not irrational. They are like cancer cells. Sure, one by itself isn't too bad. But they proliferate out of control, then one day the new rulers are sharia murderers and you'd better stick your bum in the air five times a day, or else. And don't eat or drink between sunrise and sunset or it's apostasy and head-hacking. And don't be a woman. Or a homosexual. Or a Jew. Or an infidel, or cartoonist, or denigrator.

Even more than car crashes, consider how many people die from what they do or don't put in their mouths. That's millions per year. But putting nothing in your mouth isn't an option and keeping diet perfect is impossible. It would be much more sensible to worry about diet than jihad, but diet is something people do to themselves rather than something somebody else does to them against their will.

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