You're Eight Times More Likely to Be Killed by a Police Officer Than a Terrorist
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#2A frank discussion of where our national priorities are versus where they should be would include the data point in the article.
We spend trillions killing Muslims across the ocean for the privilege of "safety" at home, where we are killed by the police in greater frequency than the Muslims ever did.
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#3The problem is the people are going to look at this the wrong way. Its not that you should be scared of police; its that you shouldn't be scared of terrorists.
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#4The problem is the people are going to look at this the wrong way. Its not that you should be scared of police; its that you shouldn't be scared of terrorists.
True, but who do people interact with and see much more? The cops are visible and aggressive whereas terrorists are abstract.
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#5This is ignoring black swan events. There is no chance that police officers will kill 10 million people tomorrow, but there is a non-zero chance that terrorists will.
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#6This is ignoring black swan events. There is no chance that police officers will kill 10 million people tomorrow, but there is a non-zero chance that terrorists will.
There is a non zero chance a police officer will kill 10 million people tomorrow.
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#7The problem is the people are going to look at this the wrong way. Its not that you should be scared of police; its that you shouldn't be scared of terrorists.
Oh, you should be very scared of the police. They have complete power over you, your life, and your property any time you interact with them, even if you do nothing to invite the interaction. If they choose to invade your home, confiscate your cash, or shoot you dead because you didn't respond to their commands fast enough, or slow enough, or deferentially enough, you have no power to respond.
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#8This is ignoring black swan events. There is no chance that police officers will kill 10 million people tomorrow, but there is a non-zero chance that terrorists will.
No, there isn't such a chance. The only WMDs with the ability to kill tens of thousands are nukes. Terrorists only have nukes on TV, the kind with big countdown displays on them. It's the difference between a black swan and the fantasy of a black swan. The is no real-world hypothesis of how such a black swan happens.
That's why black powder bombs are the highest technology terrorists actually use, because it is the most effective thing they actually can use.
EDIT Before you hypothesize about "stolen nukes" know that it is impossible to move a nuke undetected: http://www.rense.com/general16/nucla.htm
Terrorists and WMDs is fiction. And sometimes fiction is propaganda.
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#9This is ignoring black swan events. There is no chance that police officers will kill 10 million people tomorrow, but there is a non-zero chance that terrorists will.
There is a non zero chance a police officer will kill 10 million people tomorrow.
Well that would make him a terrorist. There is a zero chance it would happen from routine police activity.
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#10This is ignoring black swan events. There is no chance that police officers will kill 10 million people tomorrow, but there is a non-zero chance that terrorists will.
What on earth would make you say there is no (zero) chance police officers will kill 10 million people tomorrow? There is most certainly a chance. It is likely a very, very small chance, but it is still a non-zero chance.