Re: Can you call it \'terrorism\' if no one is scared?
The fear inspired by plane flight is similar to the fear inspired by terrorists.
We are somewhat inured to the danger in our cars because we drive them everyday. Familiarity breeds contempt. Also, we have a feeling of control. While we can't control all the risk factors involved in riding in a car (in fact, more of them are probably out of our control than we generally admit) we operate and maintain the vehicle and impact our own destiny.
Plane rides and terrorist attacks are (for most of us) 1)rare enough that we don't become desensitized to them and 2)completely out of our control. If the British population is immune to 1, that would make a huge difference.
I like publicist, if for no other reason than President Bush would have to rename it "The War on the Public", which is much closer to reality imo.
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