Terrorism Risk Comparisons

Terrorism has these sorts of reactions.

In most countries, death by terrorist is at least an order of magnitude less likely than death by bee. Strangely, we do not seem to be on a campaign to lock all humans in-doors to protect them from bees, nor have we declared a global war on beeism. These stats hold from before the modern surveillance regime, and so can hardly be credited to it. It's not actually a problem in particular need of urgent solving. Regular people are safe from terrorism, much safer than they are against most kind

People don't often die from terrorism. He is much more likley to die from diabities, heart disease, cars or a gun shot.More toddlers with guns have killed Americans this year than terrorist have.If we are trying to save lives, worrying about terrorism is a waste of money.

Terrorism isn't a crime against people or property. It's a crime against our minds, using the death of innocents and destruction of property to make us fearful. Terrorists use the media to magnify their actions and further spread fear. And when we react out of fear, when we change our policy to make our country less open, the terrorists succeed -- even if their attacks fail. – Bruce Schneier

Terrorism only achieves those non-physical effects because of people's misunderstanding of the risks. If people cared about terrorism to a similar degree to which they care about other stuff of similar deadliness, the terror part of terrorism would disappear.

Every single terror victim is a tragedy and one too many.However, when you follow the news media and the politician speeches you are led to believe that we're all going to die from a terrorist attack any minute now. In my opinion, the numbers don't support that.Moreover, it's this perception of an urgent threat that governments worldwide use to justify an unprecedented curtailment of civil rights (privacy, presumption of innocence, etc.).So yes, the comparison may be seen

Only because people let it. There is little danger form actual terrorism, but there is massive danger from people's reactions to terrorism.

The odds of being killed in a terrorist attack in Europe or the US are essentially zero. But the odds of being killed in a car crash, by a hospital mistake, falling in the shower, are very real.This is a classic, and irrational, disproportionate response.Besides, is there any evidence that monitoring 100% of message traffic will reduce terrorist attacks? Are terrorists really so dumb they're going to plan their attacks via a monitored channel? Do governments really have any problem ca

No I did not use chatgpt. I've always written with a lot of em dashes, Chatgpt probably got it from me :-)> it's very easy to build a bomb [...]Yeah, what I'm saying though is that these attacks are not happening at a scale though that is large enough for people to need to worry about their own safety personally. Your personal chance of dying in a terrorist attack is so low that it's not worth thinking about (unless maybe you live in the middle east). I'm simply

Terrorism is dwarfed by gang violence and drug violence in the US in term of casualties. Terrorism is like the buzz of a mosquito. The psychological impact is disproportionate to the actual impact and law enforcement agencies are exploiting this buzz. They are labeling any controversial law "anti-terrorist", presenting any controversial case as an "anti-terrorist" case, etc... We should not over-react the other way but we should simply tell them "no". In a free coun