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Originally Posted by _Richard_
i like the comparison of home insurance to chances of terrorist acts.
the difference of course, is a fire is a fire.
A terrorist, who just spent 12 years studying how the TSA does things.. isn't gonna turn around and hand themselves over to the TSA
They will do what the TSA isn't doing, it will succeed, and your spiral into facism will continue
see how home insurance and security against terrorism isn't comparable?
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Guess we will have to agree to disagree on this one. Perhaps my analogy was a bit far fetched with the insurance premiums being compared to the cost of the TSA.
I still think that the "substitute" terrorist attacks thus far have been way less catastrophic than the almost 3000 lives lost on 09/11. What percentage of terrorist attacks have actually been prohibited due to the TSA being in place?... who knows.
That is just like trying to measure how many speeders didn't speed because a speedtrap is in place where it used to not be. How many took alternate routes so they could keep speeding and how many just slowed their asses down and accepted they couldn't speed via that route? All we have to go by is what happened before it was in place, and what has NOT happened since it has been in place. Too much to factor in to really measure its value IMHO.