The REAL threat to Americans

[GameMaster]

A refreshing point-of-view from the ordinary terrorism media bombardment.

http://stpeteforpeace.org/real.threat.html

[Typhoid]

I want there to be a war on suicide.

[manasecret]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

I want there to be a war on suicide.

Which country would we have to invade for that? Finland?

[Bond]

China. They have like 150,000 suicides a year.

[Typhoid]

yes...which country would America have to invade to stop American suicides...hmm.

*ponders*

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

yes...which country would America have to invade to stop American suicides...hmm.

*ponders*

Canada

[Dylflon]

Originally Posted by Professor S

Canada

That'll show us for killing yourselves.

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Dylflon

That'll show us for killing yourselves.

We go to war to end the heart stopping practice of making Poutine, the deadliest substance on earth that tastes like cheesy dirt.

Mostly my post was to point out the silliness of even associating a terrorist act with the effects of poor diet and smoking. Aside from the fact that both kill, they have nothing in common.

Given their logic, you could compare 9/11 to SIDS, Auto Accident Deaths, Staph Infection Deaths, etc. Pretty much anything in which someone dies.

"The REAL threat to Americans: Old Age. It kills everyone... eventually"

Tactics like this only serve to cheapen both the fight against heart disease and terrorism, by making them both seem as small and tepid as those that created the message campaign this thread is based on.

[manasecret]

Originally Posted by Professor S

Tactics like this only serve to cheapen both the fight against heart disease and terrorism, by making them both seem as small and tepid as those that created the message campaign this thread is based on.

You know I agree. Something as important as the fight against heart disease shouldn't be compared to something as fruitless as the money pit known as the war on Iraq. I mean, terror.

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by manasecret

You know I agree. Something as important as the fight against heart disease shouldn't be compared to something as fruitless as the money pit known as the war on Iraq. I mean, terror.

Actually I was thinking that they were both very important, but for reasons that have nothing to do with one another. But the argument about the war on terror is for another thread... that we've already discussed about 4,000 times already.

[Dylflon]

We's gunna find us sum terror and den we's gunna shoot it wif our shotguuuns.

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Dylflon

We's gunna find us sum terror and den we's gunna shoot it wif our shotguuuns.

I'm glad to see you've raised the intellectual level of the conversation...

[The Germanator]

The way I look at it, I'm going to die somehow, so i just try to look at that list of things and see which ones are more immediately preventable. Let's see...I can't help it if someone kills me (homicide, terrorism, drunk driving (unless I am drunk), or medical mistakes...The other things I can treat with my own life style to a certain extent, though a lot of seemingly healthy people get cancer/ heart attacks and such.

I don't know, basically I try not to worry about terrorism. I worry more about walking alone at night in these scummy parts of L.A or about how much pizza I eat. Terrorism is one of the things I don't worry about because there's not much I can personally do about it.

[Professor S]

The logial flaw in this entire argument of terrorism vs. heart disease is personal choice.

You can choose to smoke, eat poorly and be sedentary. You can choose to eat, avoid smoking and exercise. Its your choice. No one is forcing you either way.

You cannot choose to not get blown up by some lunatic with dynamite strapped to his chest. Terrorism, homicide, etc. is the act of someone else taking away any personal choice. To quote William Munny from Unforgiven


[grizzled Clint Eastwood]"Killing a man is a hell of a thing. You take away everything they have, and everything they're ever gonna have."[/grizzled Clint Eastwood]

[The Germanator]

Yeah, that's pretty much the point I was trying to make, if I didn't make that clear...As in, I can choose not to smoke or eat poorly, but if I get gun downed by someone, well, that's a bummer.

Though the other point is this...I'm much more worried about something happening to me walking around the streets of Los Angeles, New York, or Philly, wherever I might be at the time, rather than a terrorist attack while traveling to those places. And this is a domestic problem. It just seems to me that we're putting our efforts into something that doesn't concern me nearly as much as the petty thieves or crack heads who might shoot me for twenty bucks.