{"id":5663,"date":"2017-03-23T06:33:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T06:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/03\/23\/terrorism-and-the-bath-tub-argument\/"},"modified":"2017-03-23T06:33:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T06:33:34","slug":"terrorism-and-the-bath-tub-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/03\/23\/terrorism-and-the-bath-tub-argument\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorism and the ‘Bath Tub’ Argument"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Alfred<\/a>Defeatist Londoners and other appeasers  are settling down to the 'new normal': slaughter, including beheadings, on the streets of great and not-so-great cities. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But what's the big deal? In yesterday's London incident only f<\/a>our were killed and only a few more injured.  Compare terror deaths with bath tub deaths and you will see that the likelihood of getting whacked by a jihadi<\/em> is vanishingly small as compared to bath tub deaths or traffic fatalities or gun deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n

I refute this specious reasoning in a couple of posts. See Thinking Clearly about Terrorist and Non-Terrorist Gun-Related Deaths<\/a> in which I counter the Unsinn<\/em> of Robert Paul Wolff, the guy over at The Stoned Philosopher<\/span> The Philosopher's Stone<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Defeatist Londoners and other appeasers  are settling down to the 'new normal': slaughter, including beheadings, on the streets of great and not-so-great cities.  But what's the big deal? In yesterday's London incident only four were killed and only a few more injured.  Compare terror deaths with bath tub deaths and you will see that the likelihood … Continue reading “Terrorism and the ‘Bath Tub’ Argument”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}