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To: TopCat who wrote (540516)	1/4/2010 9:11:15 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576830

"In proportion to the fact that if someone gets on a plane 20 times a year, he or she still has a greater chance of getting hit by lightning than getting killed on a plane by a terrorist." I'll bet the odds of that plane being flown into the World Trade Center is even less.... I suppose that wasn't a big deal in your mind either. It is a very bizarre rationalization for submitting to terrorists. That is, "it isn't very likely", so it is okay.

To: TopCat who wrote (540516)	1/4/2010 12:08:30 PM
From: SilentZ	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576830

>I'll bet the odds of that plane being flown into the World Trade Center is even less.... I suppose that wasn't a big deal in your mind either. There are much bigger problems. And there's no doubt that we should be doing things on an ongoing basis to deal with possibilities like that; but dropping bombs and killing tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people while wasting trillions of dollars is not the way to do it. Keep in mind that more Americans have died in Iraq and Afghanistan than in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. And for what? -Z