Originally Posted by DeeryTheDeer
I've never read a more ignorant, sensationalist statement unsupported by any facts whatsoever on the internet.
It is statistically proven to be far more dangerous to ride in a car than to ride in a plane. In fact, the most dangerous thing about riding a plane, even with the absolute worst case scenarios of how often terrorist attacks could supposedly happen, is the drive to the airport. Yet we don't feel emotionally overwhelmed by the concept of dying in a car crash, because it happens every day and we're around cars, riding or driving cars all the time.
The worst part of this illogical, overly irrational fear of terrorist attacks on planes is that more people will opt for driving instead of flying. Right after 9/11, in which almost 3,000 people died, the majority of Americans traveled by car and airports were almost completely empty.
In an amazing book called The Science of Fear, it states calculations that even if terrorists were hijacking and crashing one passenger jet a week in the United States, a person who took one flight a month for a year would only have a 1 in 350,000 chance of being killed in a hijacking, against the 1 in 6,000 chance every year of being killed in a car crash.
In the year following September 11th, when everyone was driving, there were 1,595 car fatalities, which is 6 times more deaths than anyone who died on flights on 9/11, and 319 times more deaths than the anthrax attacks in 2001.
But congratulations, Caprisun. You're an emotionally manipulated, thoughtless sheep controlled by political pundits and the government, like a pawn on a chessboard. They're playing you like a piano beautifully.
This whole full body scanner, in my opinion, is at the least a waste of money that could be spent on much more effective ways to prevent terrorism and national security instability, a direct affront of constitutional rights to privacy, and a gross overreaction and tool of control. Our childish paranoia has just gone WAYYY too far this time. In unguided fear, we lose human rights left and right.
Haha. What? Because it is more likely that you will die in a car accident than a plane crash, body scanners are wrong? That is some of the most screwed up logic I have ever heard. Why are you even talking about car accidents anyways? You can't play the statistics game here. It doesn't matter if the odds are one in a billion, it isn't acceptable. As for unguided fear, does it look I am running around with my hair on fire? I haven't proposed anything that wasn't within reason.
Thanks for the history lesson though, we can pretend that I didn't already know all of that.
I have spent the last two years studying this very subject. Plane hijackings are nothing knew and only because our airports take drastic security measures are we able to be lulled into a sense of security. As long as air travel has been popular, planes have been hijacked periodically. This is an ongoing struggle that has only recently gotten attention because of 9/11. But the main struggle of the FAA isn't against the hijackers and their conniving schemes to bring weapons aboard an airplane, it's the people like you. The C.A.V.E. people (Citizens Against Virtually Everything.) They think their freedom is at risk everytime the government proposes a new security measure, which is meant to protect you by the way. Does that sound paranoid to you? It does to me. They aren't implanting bar codes on the back of your neck for christs sake! They want to make sure you don't bring a gun on the plane. It is such a small sacrifice to make for such an important cause. All it takes is another attack for the people, you included, to be right back up the FAA's ass, asking why did this happen? Why didn't our security stop this? Security in American airports is even a bit lacking in areas. The airline with the best security record, El Al from Israel, uses blatant profiling to sift out the most likely hijackers. This works great for them and they don't even try to keep it a secret. Terrorists have basically given up trying to hijack El Al planes because they know it is impossible. That should be the goal of American airports. Israel is still a free country, their people aren't "mindless sheep." We could learn a lot from El Al but the C.A.V.E people would never stand for it. All of this in light of little Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's attempt to blow up a Northwest flight not even two weeks ago.
"I've never read a more ignorant, sensationalist statement unsupported by any facts whatsoever on the internet."
Really? That was the most sensationalist statement you've ever read? Did you read the title of the thread? It says "Child porn is now acceptable when its the government doing it." Take the blinders off Deery!
"But congratulations, Caprisun. You're an emotionally manipulated, thoughtless sheep controlled by political pundits and the government, like a pawn on a chessboard. They're playing you like a piano beautifully."
You know me so well! You gathered all that from one phrase? (Who's they? Big brother? They watch everything we do you know.)
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