RichardDunneOwnGoal
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There isn't a very real threat to your life at all.
147 terrorist deaths since 2000 in the UK. 25,000 deaths on the road in that time. That's 170x more deaths though road accidents. Do you fear for your life when you get in your car or get on a bus? The fear factor is the one thing that terrorism tried to push. But it's virtually none existent. There were 3,600 earths from falls in the uk last year, 99 on them being people falling out of bed. That's against none to terrorism. 35 people drowned in their own bath tubs in that 12 month period to give the numbers some perspective.
Things like 9/11, 21/7 and Paris last night are huge news and awful tragedies but they are not the norm and as I said, in real terms, your odds of dying in a terrorist attack in any one year are slightly less than winning the lottery.
I get mathematical probability mate.
But besides the fact that you're ignoring all the attacks foiled, what of all the repercussions that our society suffers as a consequence of this threat, and government attempts to address it, that can't be measured in numbers of deaths or a risk of fatality from a terrorist attack on a day to day basis?
The very fear of the threat is a consequence that cannot be overlooked either. Hence 'terrorism'.
We live in a security obsessed country now, and that's because of said threat.
It is changing our way of life.