Originally Posted by
KRviator
Put another way - The United States kills around 35,000 people in automobile crashes every single year. In 2001, there were over 42,000 fatalities on US roads, 10x the Sept 11 body count. But no one bats an eye. Trillions of dollars spent on "the war on terror", thousands of soldiers dead, yet more people die on US roads than are killed by terrorists. And no one is questioning it...
A sensationalist tabloid media with no other interest except fearmongering in order to increase views and clicks, and a government that knows how to take advantage of this in order to influence the public. Coupled with a poor education system that just teaches us to rote learn information and regurgitate it on exams, but never think critically about the information that we receive. If the media and government say something there is no will or need to question it, and those who do are seen as abnormal. We did question it a bit prior to the 2003 Iraq War but that thinking finished quickly after. It's same reason why 1200 people die on Australia's roads each year yet a missed approach makes headline news.