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[palou]

barneystinson69 said:

palou said:

Terrorist is pretty much by definition violent attention whore (trying to get people to notice your issue with violence.) What I always hated is that people GIVE them what they want (talking about them), which is why I brought it up. A great way to stop future terrorism is just not covering them for a week on all channels like it's the only bad thing we see in the country. Terrorists can often be traced back to have found inspiration on previous events, through social media.

Terrorists kill for their ideology! Terrorists don't give a fuck if they are on tv, as they will be dead! I mean should events like Nice and Paris be swept under the rug? 150 people dead, but who cares? We don't want to possibly inspire radicalization, so we won't speak. I'm almost laughing, because what you are saying is just the wrong thing to do!

These events are instigated by organizations like ISIS. The goal of these missions is to spread fear, and show might to gain new recruits. They want the attention. That's a fact.

 

Just a few stats: 30 000 children die of preventable diseases, each day. 

More people die from indirect smoking, each year, than all terrorist attacks since 2000. 100 000 kids (under 16) get sent to hospitals each year for lung infections caused by indirectly inhaling smoke.

Thousands of american children are raped each year. Not by strangers, or priests, but almost exclusively by their parents, close family or friends.

35 000 people die in car crashes in the US alone, each year. Worldwide, it's 1.25 million people.

 

And of course, cancer far outshines all these issues.

 

Are any of these less tragic for those involved? Of course not. Seeing someone close die hurts, no matter how that person died. But we don't hear about that on the news. Why should we hear about the 300 people a year (if it's particularly bad) that get shot by some fanatic?