[educationdata]

This is a silly comparison. Terrorist can kill 30 people in one attack or even break down a whole building with a bomb. When did 30 people choke by one piece of food?

And we don't have another 911 may because of mass surveillance. Shall we try removing the surveillance to see whether terrorist attack increases?

[AlexandrB]

We don't have another 911 because it was a tactic that could work exactly once. No pilot/crew/passengers would stand idly by and hope things work out in another plane hijacking because they expect they're dead either way.

[educationdata]

When I say another 911 I didn't mean another exact repetition, I meant another terrorist attack on large scale.

[XaoDaoCaoCao]

Maybe spending untold billions of dollars on a mass surveillance state that cows the population into authoritarian submission is a phyrric response to the threat of terrorism.

Terrorism which is exacerbated by our own shadowy geopolitical agendas...

And it's ludicrous to say "We shall have a mass surveillance system or mass terrorism!", as if security theater revealed the actual effectiveness of such actions!

Do you love giving Leviathan the sword it stabs you with, the whip that scourages you, and the mouth which mocks your humanity?

[educationdata]

"cows the population into authoritarian submission" ? I don't see this happening at all. There have been countless protests against the Trump administration, and the main stream media has being criticizing the Trump administration every single day. Please give me an example supports your projection.

[tehjoker]

Yet somehow we have concentration camps for women and children with people dying in them. Funny how that works.

[JustSomeNobody]

So it's worth it to you to spend 100's of billions to stop 30 hypothetical deaths? Ok. You're allowed to have that opinion. I'll vote against it every chance I get.

[educationdata]

30 hypothetical death is for 1 terrorist attack. Why would terrorists only attack once?

[JustSomeNobody]

I don't know. They don't seem to be attacking any place even once. And yet all this money is spent...

[OrgNet]

since when is someone dying because of what they did as bad as someone else killing them?