Thursday, November 10, 2005

Terrorism: all in the word (it's got nothing on killism)

So here I am listening to an educated person on the CBC saying infectious diseases are so much less dangerous than *insert scary sounds* bio-terrorism. Which makes sense, since terrorists aren't actually good at killing people - lightening, car crashes, cigarettes, and rotten love affairs are way more effective. What terrorists are good at is scaring people - hence the irony of beyond-the-pale-media-fear-mongering that does the terrorist's work for him (or her). A million times scarier than terrorism is KILLISM, an as-yet uninvented practice (unless you count war) that really scares the shit out of me.

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