The organizers long strived to keep politics aside, but global tensions have often imposed themselves on the contest, and things are no different this year.
    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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      4 months ago

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

      • AmosBurton@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

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

          • AmosBurton@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            4 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.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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              4 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.

              • AmosBurton@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                4 months ago

                Mmmm Iron dome might be an example.

                Worries of rockets fired by extream Muslims rapidly excelerated the development, production and deployment or the system.

                The death toll from terror attacks was reduced by a lot (in calculatable [for me at least])