by sen-no-sen » 01/08/16, 00:06
We can effectively put into perspective the number of deaths caused by current terrorism (from the Salafist movement), it is also an effective way to decondition the security atmosphere created by the political-media sphere.
Note, for example, that tobacco, junk food and others (!) claim considerably more victims than terrorism.
As a reminder, road accidents kill around 3500 people per year (2015), tobacco over 70 and "junk food" ... 000 deaths (!)
All without generating any general fear ...
This being the case, and despite a "relatively low" number of victims with regard to public health issues, jihadist terrorism has the particularity that it can lead to social and political upheavals out of all proportion to the dangers mentioned above.
The root causes of the latter being multiple, it is then easy for different mobilities to use this one for political purposes, which could ultimately lead to a civil conflict and a profound destabilization of the country ... something more difficult for a cheeseburger or a pack of cigarettes *!
It is therefore interesting to compare his figures with others, but it is also crucial to understand them in their historical contexts.
* That said, junk food and cigarettes are products of mass consumption, themselves from industrial monopolies ... and the latter are far from being innocent in the outbreak of Middle Eastern conflicts, source of current terrorism ....
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"Engineering is sometimes about knowing when to stop" Charles De Gaulle.
