terrorism by the numbers
how many people are terrorists allowed to kill annually? let's do the math. the airlines carry 600 million passengers a year. suppose we could eliminate domestic terrorism if every one of them agreed to waste an extra hour of their lives waiting in lines. suppose people on average would trade away that wasted hour to have 30 extra minutes of life to do anything else. punching numbers on my calculator; i see that hour is equivalent to 34,000 years of human life. compare that to the 112,000 years of human life that was lost on 9/11. a little more math and we are forced to conclude that terrorists need to kill 900 people per year before the extra airport wait becomes reasonable. (let me make a list!) call me a cold hard bastard. i am. just don't make me wait in lines.