>>People fear terrorists because the government and news media tell them they should.
Not entirely true. There are genuine reasons to fear terrorism (religious and/or ideologically inspired). Some reasons are - such people terrorists/extremists do NOT tolerate others to such an extent that many of them find it almost impossible to leave peacefully with people with even slightly different views/opinions.
Agreed that Heart disease, cancer, and other such things do kill many more people than plain terrorism but same can be said about sleeping e.g. "millions if not billions of people died while sleeping in their beds". Statistics can be (mis)used to justify any claim.
One reason why people find (irrespective of media) terrorism more dangerous than heart disease, cancer, etc is this - heart disease, cancer, and cars are NOT human beings and thus do NOT actively not tolerate difference of opinions amongst other groups of people and do NOT engage in acts of "killing other people for difference of opinions" while human terrorists do engage in such killings and do constantly search for opportunities to kill people with different opinions.
>>How many people in America died in terrorist attacks? About 30. Yes, 30 people.
I guess, either you forgot the 9/11 or deliberately not mentioned it. If later, do you subscribe to the extreme leftist opinion that 9/11 was nothing more than US conspiracy?
If yes, I will not be surprised.
>>Perhaps the US should take their survalence budget and use that money to fight heart disease and cancer.
That may be advisable, only if there is a clear evidence that all (religious and/or ideologically inspired (e.g. communists) terrorists and their organizations have ceased their efforts to bring the entire world under their control. Such evidence is extremely difficult to get even if it is there, unfortunately we do see a lot of evidence pointing the opposite.
Not entirely true. There are genuine reasons to fear terrorism (religious and/or ideologically inspired). Some reasons are - such people terrorists/extremists do NOT tolerate others to such an extent that many of them find it almost impossible to leave peacefully with people with even slightly different views/opinions.
Agreed that Heart disease, cancer, and other such things do kill many more people than plain terrorism but same can be said about sleeping e.g. "millions if not billions of people died while sleeping in their beds". Statistics can be (mis)used to justify any claim.
One reason why people find (irrespective of media) terrorism more dangerous than heart disease, cancer, etc is this - heart disease, cancer, and cars are NOT human beings and thus do NOT actively not tolerate difference of opinions amongst other groups of people and do NOT engage in acts of "killing other people for difference of opinions" while human terrorists do engage in such killings and do constantly search for opportunities to kill people with different opinions.
>>How many people in America died in terrorist attacks? About 30. Yes, 30 people.
I guess, either you forgot the 9/11 or deliberately not mentioned it. If later, do you subscribe to the extreme leftist opinion that 9/11 was nothing more than US conspiracy? If yes, I will not be surprised.
>>Perhaps the US should take their survalence budget and use that money to fight heart disease and cancer.
That may be advisable, only if there is a clear evidence that all (religious and/or ideologically inspired (e.g. communists) terrorists and their organizations have ceased their efforts to bring the entire world under their control. Such evidence is extremely difficult to get even if it is there, unfortunately we do see a lot of evidence pointing the opposite.
edit: minor typo