Terrorism in Europe and the United States

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Mnementh said:

Let's see. I am from Germany. Here we had in the season 2024/25 a number of 393900 confirmed cases of the flu and 1954 deaths are associated with the flu [1]. We had 2770 deaths and 364993 injured in traffic accidents [2]. We had 4 death and 13 injured in terroristic attacks in 2024 [3]. I know people feel much more unsafe because of terrorism than traffic or infectious diseases, but I wonder why? If people say because terrorism is preventable... well so is the flu and traffic accidents to a massive degree. So yeah, I don't really get it why people fear terrorism.

[1] https://www.apotheken-umschau.de/krankheiten-symptome/infektionskrankheiten/grippesaison-2024-25-hoechste-fallzahlen-seit-einem-jahrzehnt-1363285.html
[2] https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Verkehrsunfaelle/_inhalt.html
[3] https://www.verfassungsschutz.de/DE/themen/islamismus-und-islamistischer-terrorismus/zahlen-und-fakten/zahlen-und-fakten_node.html

Maybe because they feel they could do something to prevent dying from a car accident or the flu, but nothing in case of a terrorist attack? Feeling helpless can do such things to people - but it's not the only reason.

The other reason is that they feel not dying to the flu or car accident is part of their responsibility - but nobody feels responsible when terrorists attack. Irresponsibility plus a feeling of helplessness driving that fear up to 11 without any feeling of needing to address the root causes behind it in the first place.