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I believe the paranoia surrounding terrorism at the moment to be much more dangerous than terrorism itself.

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I honestly don't know whether to agree with you or not. One of last week's attempts (detonator went off, faulty bomb) was about 200m from my house--streets were cordoned off, people not allowed back into their homes, the whole thing.

As a gambler, I'm used to sizing up probabilities, figuring out the chances, etc. Even though I walk past the station every day at roughly the same time that the bomb went off, I still estimate my chances of dying in the explosion if it had gone off at something like 10,000:1. But I'm not sure if these numbers have anything to do with realtiy because I'm, well, terrified and have no idea how much of my paranoia is justified and how much is not.