Hypothesize that the reason airline terrorism works is because air travel is primarily a hobby of the rich, who have an outsized effect on attention and influence. If an equivalent number of the lower classes died needlessly, the world would care less, and in fact doesn't.
Consider defeating such terrorism merely with an attitude shift: no pity for the privileged who otherwise live lives of luxury. It would be cheaper to implement than current anti-terrorism measures.
A society with great inequalities of wealth and power is easier for a terrorist to attack with great effect.
Inspired by an interview of a passenger of NW253 with a Tiffany lamp prominently in the background.
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Seems like a pretty strong and difficult to disagree with hypothesis indeed.
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