I'm not afraid of terrorism, are you?

[Excited Penguin]

Thing about threats is, their underlying causes matter. If these same terrorists that aren't a big threat to you right now might get their hands on a better technology of warfare suddenly you'd have a significantly increased fear of terrorism. Just goes to show you didn't think it through. This is why we're more afraid of terrorists than other societal dangers, apart from the fact that fucking savages shoot masses of people in the civilised world every month or so.

This board man, I've never before seen so many regressives in one place.

......?  Or maybe I'm just not the kind of trembling bitch that fears my own shadow and whatever cascading "what if" idiocy I might be able to dream up at any given moment?  Fear, in this context, just isn't useful.  If they get better at what they do, we get nastier in reprisal.  I'm not sure what else to say?

I'm fairly sure we're talking about different kinds of fear here. You're taking the word too literally, I'm using it on a more intellectual level. I hope this clears things up for both of us.

You have to fear them in the sense that you have to try to prevent this from going too far. Too many people don't care about the issue enough and many of them are in positions to do something about it, however small it might be, even if it means not standing in the way of others' efforts to solve the problem.