[chmod775]

Spending the absurd amount of money that's going towards building a surveillance state on making staircases safer instead will save several magnitudes more lifes each year.

That's not because a lot of people break their neck walking up stairs, it's because how disproportionate and irrational the response to the terror scare is.

If news reported on every case of people dying a preventable death while utilizing something we have learned to build in a safer manner by now, they'd do little else.

It just isn't as flashy as people blowing up.

[Something1234]

Dying a preventable death is kind of embarrassing for the family and the deceased. Especially if it was caused by improper use of something worthy of a Darwin award.

[chmod775]

Losing your balance and breaking your neck while falling down some stairs is hardly worthy of a darwin award.

About 12,000 people die each year falling down stairs in the US alone.

Going by these numbers the proportionate response would be to spend at least a trillion dollars each year for a war on unsafe stairs.

A war on cancer on the other hand would eat up more than the US's GDP if it was to be in any way propotionate to the cost of lives.

Either would be more effective than the war on terror or the surveillance state at saving lives though.