[HighSense]

> Look at Europe... they have the "open mindset" approach and there are more problems there than anywhere in the world (regarding politics, terrorism and common people not being happy)

What? I'll grant you the corrupt politicians and stupid politics, but you get those anywhere and everywhere.

Terrorism? Yeah, sure it seems to have spiked lately, but if you count mass shootings as terrorism I'd wager the US would have more incidences of terrorism than any European nation. The US is also listed as having a higher rank on the Global Terrorism Index for 2015.

And finally, Europe has some of the most highly rated nations in terms of their citizens' happiness, at least the Scandinavians are enjoying themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Terrorism_Index (2015 data) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report (2016 data)

[moyta]

Terrorism is such a low priority though, we would be much better off focusing on cutting our mortality rate from car accidents and maternal deaths during pregnancy, we would save waaaay more people from dying with much less funding.

There is no good reason we can't cut maternal deaths to under 100 versus the 670 odd deaths a year currently, we have the infrastructure, just not the willpower to save those 570 women's lives.

[zimpenfish]

As a data point, car accidents in the US have killed 10x as many as 9/11 -every single year- since 1946.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...