Bad Luck: Why Americans Exaggerate the Terrorist Threat Post

This made me smile a bit, because it was short, simple, to the point, and short.  Rosen writes in his essay about how the terrorist threat is exaggerated in America, and that there is less chance of someone getting killed by an attack than there is by getting into a car accident.  Now I agree with the fact that the statistics are in favor you getting killed some other way, however why should we even bother with the statistics?

On one hand having the statistics could bring about a better feeling about homeland security.  If the odds of getting killed in a terrorist attack are slim to none, then the person reading the article should sigh in relief, because their chances of living just increased, however that doesn’t excuse them from ever meeting their maker eventually.  We all die, it’s just the way it goes.

On the other had the statistics on death can really affect someone into living a sheltered life and being all anti-social, which also sucks.  So in that case just live life to the fullest and if something happens just go with the flow, or something like that.  They say that cancer is the top killer in America.  If it happens that someone gets terminal cancer and they have the choice of living out the rest of their life and not doing anything about the cancer, verses staying in a hospital and having kimo done to you with the chance of prolonging your life, well then I would choose to live it out my own way.

I would do that for a few reasons, and that is simply  because staying in a Hospital cost mucho mula, and all you do is eat, sleep, and go through therapy, and its not fun.  However if I had a set amount of time left then I’d create a list of what I wanted to do before I kicked it.  It’s kind of like that movie “A Walk to Remember”.  The girl only had a little bit of time left, but she got to do what she wanted to do before her time ran out, she lived her life to the fullest, and so should everyone else.  If you want to learn an instrument, take lessons, if you want to play video games, buy a counsel or do whatever makes you happy.  The key thing is that statistics keep people in fear for their life, if there were no stats then people would care less about death and focus on living rather than preserving life.