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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
I tend to look at it this way: you are far more likely to be killed in a road incident (nation wide OR in any given major city) on any day of the year than you are to be killed in a terrorist incident. But, do we sit in crippling fear when we see "Greatest Road Smash Disasters 27" on Channel 5? Do our hands tremble every time we reach for our car doorhandles? No... we know there is risk, but we get on with our day.
It's scary when you think about the ins and outs of it all - bloodthirsty people actively trying to kill - of course it is. But if you remove that element and think of it purely in terms of actual mathematical risk, then we take bigger risks every single day and we don't live in fear of them. Trying our best to view it like that, and to not let it affect our lives in any way, is the only way to combat it. The goal is fear. The goal of terrorists, the goal of many politicians, the goal of every creditor who sends a threatening letter your way... it's all the same thing. Fear = compliance. Don't give it to them, not ever.
We all leave our homes every day with various risk factors that mean we might not come home. Might be hit by a car, might crash our own car, might slip on ice and die of a head injury, might have a brain aneurism or a heart attack... might be killed in a terrorist incident. The last of those is the least likely by far and yet it's the one that has people the most scared.
When "your thing" happens, it happens. That's the only way to live without driving yourself insane with anxiety.
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Brilliantly put and 100% true. (Be very careful T.S we might end up on the same team
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