Flilix said:
The problem with this is, that if we don't help refugees, a lot of them would die or live in terrible conditions. I'm not a huge fan of religion, but we can't let a whole group of people die because some of them have the wrong ideas. |
Absolutely. I do believe you understood me with the totality of my post, but just in case someone else might have missed the overall message I was attempting to convey :
I believe that overreaction to things like VA, the London attacks, Barcelona, etc, are a bane on society. Giving such hype and coverage to these bastards is giving them entirely too much power by extension. Spending billions or trillions fighting an idea, when the actual threats are laughably pathetic in the big picture. It's almost farcical how so much money, blood, and even suspension of legal rights have been given away towards responses to such weak-minded losers. Terrorists, 'supremacists', etc, are always too cowardly to attack a legitimate force, they go after unarmed civilians or defenseless targets. Still, they are few in the big picture. In 2015, in the USA alone, 52,000+ people died from opiod related causes. 40,000+ died in automobile accidents. 42,000+ died from suicide. Any one of these is higher in a single year than the entire death count on Western nations from 'terrorism' in the past hundred years combined.
Islamic Terrorists manage to kill more Muslims than any other target group, because they're cowards and losers. And even if I think religion is fairly dumb (not necessarily spirituality itself, mind you), the vast majority of Muslims are just regular people trying to go about their daily lives in peace.
I contrasted the absurdity of the goals in making us safer from threats that are ineffective, while ignoring or glossing over threats that kill countless times more of our citizens. A concerted effort in any area could reduce deaths far more than our government's wanking over Terrorism boogeymen. But of course, we know it's not really about fighting terrorism. It's about scaring and dividing people. It's about getting pork spending on useless boondoggles. It's about bloating bearucracies. It's about creating entirely new redundant agencies. It's about greed, power, money, fear, and stupidity.
I agree with your sentiments about providing aid and hope to refugees of course. The stories of regular men, women, and children fleeing the zones of madmen and wanton destruction are truly harrowing.
