Pinker's point ignores 3 things: - Jihadism is fat-tailed. A disease that only kills 6 Americans a year is not. - Jihadism only kills 6 Americans a year *because* the govt pays so much to stop it. - The threat of jihad increases with time due to proliferation of ideology & tech.https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/953100283764191232 …
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal @IonaItalia
Pinker argues in Better Angels that all terrorism fails over time because it needs to become more and more bloodthirsty to keep terrorising people, which in turn undermines support for their cause. Hopefully he is right.
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Replying to @ZakariyaAlRazi @IonaItalia
That's not borne out by statistics, though:https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-attacks/number-of-fatal-terrorist-attacks-in-western-europe-increasing-data-show-idUSKBN19X1QO …
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Total number of attacks is down slightly from previous year, but number of fatal attacks has gone up, as well as overall deadliness of attacks. Since 2011, number of overall attacks has been rising steadily, despite the distasteful brutality of IS being broadcast across the world
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