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16-11-2015 04:23 PM |
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Originally Posted by bitontheslide
(Post 8288265)
I will comment on this post directly....
We are fortunate enough to live in a democracy where we can live relatively free lives. The terrorists aim to instil fear in our population and force us to remove the freedoms that we so enjoy.
Closing borders makes us an insular state, Not a free one. It encourages an us and them society where those considered different from the norm will be persecuted. Its not the way to proceed if we want to hold on to our core values.
The problem I think is that everyone seems to expect/want an instant solution, and there just isn't one. If we are to wipe out this menace it WILL take generations to achieve. In the mean time, we go on as we have always done, because for want of a better word, that's what makes us British. The moment we deviate from that, the terrorists have won.
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Excellent post bitontheslide. People just don't seem to see that the more we give up in the name of protecting our way of life, the less of our way of life we have left to protect.
For those saying we live in dangerous times: no, in relative terms we just simply don't. Things are more dangerous now than they have been for a handful of decades, perhaps. If that. In historical terms the average person here is still safer (by a ridiculous margin) than we have been at any point in the entire history of the human race. If you can't appreciate that then you don't have a firm grasp of what life has been through history and earlier. The daily risks of the average Victorian citizen? Or earlier? When you would have been literally thousands of times more likely to die from simple poor sanitation than in a terrorist attack today? And then a thousand other daily risks that barely exist today?
Not that I'm saying we should be complacent but it's almost laughable to insist that these are dangerous times in historical terms. They just aren't. For a century we had a relatively safe ish century... If you don't include both world wars... Or the threat of nuclear devastation posed by the Cold War... I guess. Actually I think it's just the 2.5 decades, 80's / 90's / first half of the 00's when all of the conflicts felt "far away over there" and we were living in comfort (or ignorance?) here, feeling completely secure, that has warped things to the point where any vague danger is considered to amount to "dangerous times".
Our forefathers might laugh.
Rest assured; as you go about your daily business, you are statistically still very safe. One of the safest people in the world, and one of the safest Britons in history. This would be true even if there was a paris-scale terrorist attack in the UK every single month. |
