You are 4 times more likely to be killed by lightning or bees than Islamic terrorism

It's very sad that you feel, as a tax payer, you're spending too much on saving lives. Human life is priceless, and every measure that can be taken to prevent terrorism should be.

A human life is not priceless. The NHS put a price on life every single day.

The NHS puts a price on treatment, not life. They're not actively killing patients (one or two rogue staff notwithstanding).

So if someone offered you $9m in return for them killing one of your family, you'd be OK with that?

No.

Nor would I expect you to be. That's my point.

Perhaps a better way round to put that scenario would be instead of offering a sum to kill a loved one, assume this person is going to kill them, but offers not to, in return for everything you have to give (assuming, in this hypothetical scenario, they can be trusted to keep their word). So you'd have your loved one, but would be literally penniless, your assets reduced to 0.

If it was me, I'd take that offer; my loved one's lives have no limit on value, so whatever I could give, I would.

Now, changing the scenario, this hypothetical killer has someone unknown to you, and offers you the same choice.

Again, if it was me, I'd also take the offer, as I couldn't live with knowing I had the power to save someone's life but chose not to.

Now think about why this is the case? Because terrorists aren't trying or millions have to be spent on counter terrorism efforts?

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It's very sad that you feel, as a tax payer, you're spending too much on saving lives. Human life is priceless, and every measure that can be taken to prevent terrorism should be.

If you are American you are 4 times more likely to be killed by a bolt of lightning than Islamic terrorism OR If you are British; Bees and wasps have caused as many deaths in the UK as terrorism in the past decade.

How many Americans have been killed in Islamic- related terrorist attacks inside the United States since the September 11, 2001, atrocities? Well, According to the figures published in the Global Terrorism Database there have been a total of 24 deaths.

As for the UK, since the London Bombings in 2005? 1.
With an estimate of 5 people a year.

According to Sociologist Charles Kurbin of the 150,000 murders taken place in the United States, Muslim Americans are responsible for 33 that is less than 1%.


Taking these figures into account, a rough calculation suggests that in the last five years, your chances of being killed by a terrorist are about one in 20 million. This compares annual risk of dying in a car accident of 1 in 19,000; drowning in a bathtub at 1 in 800,000; dying in a building fire at 1 in 99,000; or being struck by lightning at 1 in 5,500,000. In other words, in the last five years you were four times more likely to be struck by lightning than killed by a terrorist.

If you are British; Bees and wasps have caused as many deaths in the UK as terrorism in the past decade, an independent watchdog has found.

A wasp has actually brought down a plane tbf. One got stuck in the plane's pitot tube, which eventually caused the loss of the aircraft, killing 189 people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgenair_Flight_301

I haven't seen a wasp hijack three planes and kill 3500 people.


I guess you could've used the same apologist argument after pearl harbour. Sadly, they don't jive.

My point in making this thread is that I think we hear about the threat Islamic terrorism poses to us way too much (like at least once everyday if you watch the news) when in reality statistics show that the likelihood of being a victim of this kind of terrorism is not as prevalent as you would suppose. In short you can't live your life in fear of something that most likely will not happen.

What do you do if 3500 of your Citiziens are killed by terrorists?

Act on it? Hope it won't happen again?

Depends how you act on it. The Iraq war debacle killed way more innocent people over a million if we're to believe Amnesty.

You know most Iraqi casualties were caused by errrr iraqis?

So they would have died even if there wasn't a war? I smell bull****.

I haven't seen a wasp hijack three planes and kill 3500 people.


I guess you could've used the same apologist argument after pearl harbour. Sadly, they don't jive.

Depends how you act on it. The Iraq war debacle killed way more innocent people over a million if we're to believe Amnesty.