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by cm2187 3627 days ago
Realistically it's an average air crash. At the scale of a population like France it is almost meaningless. Drowning kills several orders of magnitude more. I don't see calls for changing the constitution to reduce the number of drownings.

Or suicidal airline pilots...
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angry-hacker 3627 days ago
But it's one airplane crash too many. I don't understand your point. We shouldn't care?
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smhenderson 3627 days ago
Not to answer for the parent but IMHO it's not so much we shouldn't care. It's we should be very careful about what rights and freedoms we give up and how much power we give to a state to scrutinize our daily lives when the very thing we are trying to prevent has not had a major impact on our daily lives.

Yes, it had a major impact on some people and their families and their pain is not to be dismissed lightly but on the other hand we should not give up our way of life to prevent these things from happening, especially when evidence supports that the new laws that are written after these events seem to do very little to actually further protect us.

While a little sensational I think the graphic in this article concerning the TSA in the US does a pretty decent job of summing up exactly what we've gotten from "enhanced" security in the US.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120405/04390118385/tsa-s...

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cm2187 3627 days ago
Every homicide or rape is shocking, unacceptable, and one too many. Eliminating crime completely can be achieved at the expense of living in a totalitarian society. So there has to be a balance between the emotion aspect of every crime and keeping society free.

Medias usually have this balance in mind when they cover common crime. This balance goes totally out of the door when it is terrorism.

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EdHominem 3627 days ago
Do you ban airplanes? Or the taxis that get people to the airport? Or apps that tell people when flights are scheduled?

Right, of course not.

It's not that you shouldn't care, it's that you should care in proportion to the seriousness. 234 death is fifteen days of 2014's driving fatalities.

Why do you hate the children so much that you don't care to save them except from movie-plot deaths?

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leakybit 3627 days ago
Typical Liberal broadsided thinking, We can't change the constitution just because terrorists are killing a marginal amount of people but we should change the constitution to ban guns because mass shootings are killing a marginal amount of people.
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