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[-] StaticFalconar@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Every single big event all over the world has the potential to be a target for a terrorist attack.

[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 19 minutes ago

Every time you leave your house you have a chance to be hit by a car. It's many orders of magnitude more likely than to get killed by a terrorist attack. Yet everyone still drives cars.

The fear of terrorism has been used to curtail so many liberties. Always as a temporary measure. Draconian pre-flight security screenings? (seriously, not being allowed to bring water?): "temporary". Expansion of the surveillance state and policing: "temporary".

It's time to start asking wether this is all worth it. The fetishization of "security above all" in modern political rhetoric is a bad thing, in my opinion.

this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2024
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