On 03/02/17 21:05, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
Apparently, you can still buy tobacco products here and consume them immediately and they will eventually kill you but thanks to the irrational fear of Muslims, you can't get immediate access to the Internet in Belgium. This is not about an "irrational" fear of "Muslims", it's the rational outcome of an actual event:
My comment wasn't to suggest that terrorism doesn't occur, it is simply to point out that the statistical probability that most of us would ever encounter a terrorist (Muslim or otherwise) is incredibly low and much lower than many other risks that people take for granted. Hence the over-reaction to it is a bit irrational. As the airlines have been pointing out for years, you are more likely to die in your bathtub than flying. Likewise, most people are statistically far more likely to die from car accidents, air pollution, smoking or other things. About 10,000 Americans die every year from non-terrorism incidents involving guns, these days they rarely make the news unless the shooter is a 2 year old who finds mummy's gun in the purse or, of course, a Muslim. Regards, Daniel