(July 22, 2016 at 12:59 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote:(July 22, 2016 at 12:54 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Meh, not to me its not. Full disclosure..I'm a junkie for morbidity and mortality weekly. No one asked whether we -cared- about terrorism, they asked whether or not we feared it. Well, I've seen it's face...and it's about as frightening as an IT guy named Jamal....and no less random than being hit by a car...so.....
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.
It doesn't even take very advanced technology as witnessed by the massacre in Nice. The way I see it, when Germany and Imperial Japan were totally humiliated by Allies their respective ideologies where also effectively discredited. Sure there are a few neo-Nazi, white supremacy losers smoking in their mom's basements, but despite their delusions of grandeur they are common criminals. They inspire no one. The same with Islamic terror. Until the jihadi rhetoric and the ideology of Islamic supremacy is thoroughly discredited we'll be playing wack-a-mole with pychos that the larger movement exploits.
