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frozenesper
9y ago
I think you're underestimating yourself. I can control my own actions, so my worry about heart disease can inform my dietary choices. We can control gun violence by influencing culture or changing laws, so gun control is an appropriate
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frozenesper
9y ago
I agree that much of what the TSA does is security theater, but... at least we got that? It shows that we as a society cared enough to "put on a show" of protecting ourselves from terrorism. I welcome more research on effective wa
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frozenesper
9y ago
It's precisely because we have far more control over heart disease that we do not fear it. I can accept getting heart disease—maybe it was my fault?—much more readily that being actively, senselessly, killed by someone else. Terrorists