It doesn’t have to happen. Certainly, if you take defensive measures, it’s less likely to happen.
But warfare has always been an offensive/defensive battle. Offense has seemed to have the advantage for a while, and random violence in a free society has a huge advantage as well. 1K seems easy. 10K takes some skill. 1000k seems unlikely without a very contagious bug with just the right incubation time.
“Ubiquitous surveillance at the planning stage”—that sounds rather ominous there, Big Brother.
What’s more amazing to me is how little damage crazies do, when it just doesn’t seem like it would be that hard.
But warfare has always been an offensive/defensive battle. Offense has seemed to have the advantage for a while, and random violence in a free society has a huge advantage as well. 1K seems easy. 10K takes some skill. 1000k seems unlikely without a very contagious bug with just the right incubation time.
1k seems easy? That is, killing 1k people? That seems possible, but not easy. At very least it deserves a “takes some skill and a huge amount of dedicated planning”.
I started replying, but I just don’t think it’s worth it. I have no particularly brilliant idea here, and likely you’d still just disagree, but I don’t see mileage in giving people ideas about this on the internet just so we can chat.
It doesn’t have to happen. Certainly, if you take defensive measures, it’s less likely to happen.
But warfare has always been an offensive/defensive battle. Offense has seemed to have the advantage for a while, and random violence in a free society has a huge advantage as well. 1K seems easy. 10K takes some skill. 1000k seems unlikely without a very contagious bug with just the right incubation time.
“Ubiquitous surveillance at the planning stage”—that sounds rather ominous there, Big Brother.
What’s more amazing to me is how little damage crazies do, when it just doesn’t seem like it would be that hard.
http://www.gwern.net/Terrorism%20is%20not%20Effective
1k seems easy? That is, killing 1k people? That seems possible, but not easy. At very least it deserves a “takes some skill and a huge amount of dedicated planning”.
I started replying, but I just don’t think it’s worth it. I have no particularly brilliant idea here, and likely you’d still just disagree, but I don’t see mileage in giving people ideas about this on the internet just so we can chat.