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--- In [hidden email], James Gibbon <james.gibbon@v...> wrote:
> "Stuart" wrote:
> I'm not suggesting that billions should be spend on safer transport
> infrastructure (get hold of a dictionary if the term is still
> troubling you - all three words will most likely be in there), just
> that spending many more billions on preventing a handful of humans
> from being abducted and killed doesn't make relative economic
> sense.

On a related note, take the concept of terrorism. Nations will spend
billions and billions to prevent terrorism. Aside from the twin
towers (and possible WOMD), terrorist acts kill only few people, the
probability of dying in a terrorism act is very, very small
(probably more likely to die in a plane crash or be hit by
lightning), yet governments are prepared to spend billions on
preventing it. I think the main issue is that it has shock value on
the population. With aliens coming to the planet and killing just a
handfull of humans, I think it would have the same or probably even
much worse effect on the general public, thus the will to spend
billions to prevent it.

David Levine