Maybe a free people should accept a small elevation in risk

[sudopod]

as the price of being free.

Edit: Does anyone disagree?

[bobbolink]

1. aw, crud-a-rama..... I went to hit rec and got the unrec instead.

Sorry! :blush:

Could someone please cancel out my accidental unrec?

I don't even know that it would be a "rise" at all.... There are so many unplugged loopholes elsewhere...

A "free people" can never be entirely safe... but as risks go, this is a relatively small one, when one compares.

[sudopod]

3. ;o)

[awoke_in_2003]

7. done, bobbo. nt

[bobbolink]

8. Thanks! I really wish those two buttons weren't so close!

Thanks for coming to my rescue.... again... :blush: :hi:

[FiveGoodMen]

2. Ben Franklin thought so.

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

[bemildred]

4. Absolute security is not to be had.

Free or not.

[sudopod]

5. but, what if they try to make us get sharia law like they got in Texas? nt

[bemildred]

9. You would still be insecure, doomed to get sick and die someday.

Subject to corporate exploitation and disease and violent attacks of all sorts.

[sudopod]

11. It seems like we'll be left with three rights in the end.

The rights to work, consume, and die. :/

[bemildred]

12. I think you've got it. nt

[Jackpine Radical]

17. Don't count on that "consume" one.

It will be operative only for as long as it takes to get the rest of your property away from you.

[KharmaTrain]

6. Life's A Contact Sport...

I'm more fearful of some moron driving 70mph in a boat while yakking on the cellphone than I am of some "terrirst" flying an airplane into my head.

The definition of the ultimate in security: a police state.

[sudopod]

10. I saw someone say that there's a 1 in 100 million chance of

dying in a terrorist plane attack, based on the number of planes that have flown safely since 9/11/01.

We've got a 1 in 100 chance of dying in a car accident over the span of our lives.

Hell, I wonder how many people die in alcohol-related boating accidents every year, compared to "terrorism"?

[lbrtbell]

13. I think we'd be safer if they cared about cargo

But then, we can't sell radiation-emitting scanning devices for that, now, can we?

[sudopod]

15. Kinda makes ya question the whole operation, doesn't it? nt

[Curmudgeoness]

14. Give me liberty or give me death, anyone?

Freedom isn't free. I agree that we should accept more risk to keep more freedom.

[BadGimp]

16. I ABSOLUTELY agree

I ain't afraid of terrorists, and I'm prepared to risk my life and the lives of my fellow Americans to keep my freedoms and liberties.

I'm afraid of American who want to take away my freedoms and liberties.