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Probability neglect is when the probability of an event is not taken into account at all when assessing risk, or cost / benefit.
"Indeed, [in the ten years] since 9/11 no terrorist entity within the United States has been able to detonate even a simple bomb."
"Increased delays and added costs at U.S. airports due to new security procedures... the extra automobile traffic generated has been estimated in one study to result in 500 or more extra road fatalities per year."
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The threat of terrorism far from justifies the actions of the US government. Repealing what remains of the USA PATRIOT Act and eliminating the TSA would be a nice start.
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them
imaginary." - H. L. Mencken (1880 – 1956)
"Indeed, [in the ten years] since 9/11 no terrorist entity within the United States has been able to detonate even a simple bomb."
"Increased delays and added costs at U.S. airports due to new security procedures... the extra automobile traffic generated has been estimated in one study to result in 500 or more extra road fatalities per year."
( Read more... )
The threat of terrorism far from justifies the actions of the US government. Repealing what remains of the USA PATRIOT Act and eliminating the TSA would be a nice start.
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them
imaginary." - H. L. Mencken (1880 – 1956)
