• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    2 months ago

    Okay? And? What’s the point of worrying about what they’re going to do when? You can’t predict or stop it.

    I live in the U.S., land of mass shootings and many religious extremists of many stripes. I don’t spend my time worrying about where and when the next mass shooting will be. What’s the point? What good does it do?

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            2 months ago

            I’m pretty sure worrying won’t save any lives in a catastrophe, so that’s a very poor analogy.

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              2 months ago

              Worrying could lead to measures which might help to avoid/reduced impact/midigate destruction of the next incident.

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                  2 months ago

                  I don’t know about you, but when I’m worried, I am more alert.

                  Let’s say my some kids are playing in the sea, my worry will keep me looking over to see everything is OK.

                  So in our case, if we the individuals are worried about extreme Muslim movements/communities, we will be more alert around them and keep an eye out. This way a planned attack is harder to carry out.

                  But that’s just a theory.

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                    2 months ago

                    So you can’t actually give a real-world example of worrying having any effect on extremist terrorist attacks… unlike seat belts. Hence it being a bad analogy.

                    Also, I assume you won’t be at Eurovision, so I am guessing your worrying about a bombing there wouldn’t matter even if worrying did have an effect.