Is anyone bothered by the current "terror threat level"?

[MaryPoppins]

kill some children crossing the road. You wouldn't get very far saying "it was just their time to die".

[EC4N]

Given the fact that in 2009 more that 100,000 people were stopped and searched by police under counter-terrorism powers and yet no one was charged for terrorism related offences, how do you actually guage the viability of a perceived terror threat?

[Support Monkey]

No fate but what we make.

Fate is just an excuse people use to avoid responsibility. Say you drive drunk, go through a red light, and kill some children crossing the road. You wouldn't get very far saying "it was just their time to die".

Your still focusing on the way they died, and forget calling it fate or destiny, but what i am interested in is why was that child in that street at exactly the time that drunk driver hit them were they just that unlucky,(the belief in luck is the same as believing in fate or destiny) what if they had crossed the road or just left the house 5 seconds later or earlier the car would have missed them

[VectraMan]

Your still focusing on the way they died, and forget calling it fate or destiny, but what i am interested in is why was that child in that street at exactly the time that drunk driver hit them were they just that unlucky,(the belief in luck is the same as believing in fate or destiny) what if they had crossed the road or just left the house 5 seconds later or earlier the car would have missed them

True, but the danger is if you start believing in fate you stop taking responsibility. The "could be hit by a bus" argument implies being hit by a bus is a random occurrence, whereas I'd suggest people who are hit by busses are probably to blame because they didn't look. It's also true that they could have avoided the accident by leaving the house 5 seconds later, but that's insignificant.

The unlucky child hit by a drunk driver could have looked, could have been given a lift to school, could have walked down the road to use a footbridge, or could have stayed at home. None of these things are random. 99.9% of what put the child there at that time were conscious decisions, not luck.