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I wish some of our politicians had the balls to stop this paranoid mess and say "No, we can't guarantee 100% safety, learn to live with it".

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It's not politicians. It's people. And, it is people who are paranoid and irrational. Politicians just have to cater to the majority opinion to get anything done.

It'd be nice and refreshing if the media, and governments spent as much time as possible educating people on the comparative risks.

The chance of dying from terrorism is far far lower than most other causes of death. It's a rounding error.

The other one that gets me is the painting by the media that pedophiles are going to snatch your child off the street, whilst the risk is miniscule, and most sexual abuse is by family members. It makes people afraid to live their lives.

If newspapers actually ranked news by how much it actually matters, we'd have a massively different view of the world.

Media outlets would label that as "boring." It's a sad state of affairs, but sensationalism sells.

I think someone needs to stand up in Congress with a table of the top 50 causes of death in the last 5 decades, coupled with the current spending to combat each of those. They should then debate until each of those investments is perfectly balanced. Transportation security would end up with about $4.50.

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