Comments on: Amateur Security http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/11/amateur_securit.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:18:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tim Zick http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/11/amateur_securit.html/comment-page-1#comment-51735 Tim Zick Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:22:55 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/11/amateur-security.html#comment-51735 Keeping us at "Code Orange" indefinitely hasn't helped. If we are always to be mindful and afraid, then everything will naturally look suspicious. That is, unless one lives in NYC. I find the "see something, say something" ads ridiculous. There isn't a single day I don't see something strange, or out of what many would consider "the ordinary." Scaring the public works very well -- for politicians. I have to agree it doesn't do much for security. Keeping us at “Code Orange” indefinitely hasn’t helped. If we are always to be mindful and afraid, then everything will naturally look suspicious. That is, unless one lives in NYC. I find the “see something, say something” ads ridiculous. There isn’t a single day I don’t see something strange, or out of what many would consider “the ordinary.” Scaring the public works very well — for politicians. I have to agree it doesn’t do much for security.

]]> By: Adam http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/11/amateur_securit.html/comment-page-1#comment-51734 Adam Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:55:23 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/11/amateur-security.html#comment-51734 It's interesting, the extent to which the panicked public response to the risk of terrorism mirrors that of the risk of man-made global warming. (Cass Sunstein wrote an interesting paper on the subject back in 2005, I believe.) Given the excessive responses on subjects -- the terrrorism scares noted above, or Harry Reid's blaming the California fires on global warming, for example -- perhaps the American public will ultimately become a bit more nuanced in its approach towards risk management. It’s interesting, the extent to which the panicked public response to the risk of terrorism mirrors that of the risk of man-made global warming. (Cass Sunstein wrote an interesting paper on the subject back in 2005, I believe.)

Given the excessive responses on subjects — the terrrorism scares noted above, or Harry Reid’s blaming the California fires on global warming, for example — perhaps the American public will ultimately become a bit more nuanced in its approach towards risk management.

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