Right, but we're human beings who have evolved in a specific environment to have specific wants and desires and fears.
And one of those is the fear of terrorism.
You can, I guess, beat on the statistics drum until the sun swallows the Earth, but human beings on planet Earth, largely, do not agree with your model for assessing the costs of international terrorism.
Your model assumes that, hey, a death is a death is a death, no matter the cause; but most people care more about some types of deaths than others.
You seem to think you just need to educate those people, but the difference is deeper than that.
And one of those is the fear of terrorism.
You can, I guess, beat on the statistics drum until the sun swallows the Earth, but human beings on planet Earth, largely, do not agree with your model for assessing the costs of international terrorism.
Your model assumes that, hey, a death is a death is a death, no matter the cause; but most people care more about some types of deaths than others.
You seem to think you just need to educate those people, but the difference is deeper than that.