War is peace

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Originally Posted by Morrigoon

The only way to be truly free is to accept that such freedom comes with the realization that sometimes bad things will happen. Bad things don't necessarily stop happening when you take freedoms away.

Originally Posted by Morrigoon

No matter how many x-ray machines we install, even if we did so in every public place in America, there's nothing we can do to protect ourselves from someone willing to sacrifice their own life in order to harm us (eg: suicide bombers). Every attempt we make to stop them (eg: becoming a totalitarian state in order to create a false sense of "security") only helps them win. It's exactly what they want us to do. That's what terrorism IS.

The only way to win the war against terrorism is to refuse to be bothered by their actions.

That is exactly how I feel. We do take a risk by having an open society, but I'm not willing to have a cop on every streetcorner in order to feel a pretend sense of "safe".