>saved) by "anti-terror" measures? yes, probably. but everyone takes traffic
deaths as a fact of life and air terror as >something much more scary, so
it's more socially acceptable to go to ridiculous extremes to prevent the
latter rather than >the former. it also makes people feel patriotic talking
about "national security".
Precisely. Rishab, I see you have been reading a lot of Bruce Schneier's
stuff..
I think that's the point (and the strength) of the Indian mentality, really
- we just treat terrorist attacks as a fact of life (and recognize how rare
they are in terms of actual odds).
Come to think of it, this mentality might be part of the reason most people
still drink Pepsi and Coke without worrying about pesticides..I certainly
kept drinking them the last time the controversy came up, when I was in
India..
B
