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Originally Posted by wibblefox View Post
We previously established that their net impact on the economy is negative though, even if you use them as indentured slaves...

The key part of the question was the single biggest threat to the US, whether it is overall negative or not or doubtful, but this part of the claim is the part Im challenging in particular
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Originally Posted by Mallymkun View Post
Any country would be more than sensible to close its borders while Islam continues to spread its plague across the globe. Treat it as a non-issue and the same will happen to America, as it has happened in both France and Germany.

Neither France or Germany is a poor country.

Smoking in both countries (and america) is a far bigger killer than terrorist attacks in what way are illegal immigrants worse for the countries than smoking?
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Originally Posted by Mallymkun View Post
So?

Originally Posted by Mallymkun
the same will happen to America, as it has happened in both France and Germany.



Fuck kind of comparison is that. I don't know why I bother debating here anymore.

Its a very valid comparison, I assume the reason you dont want illegal muslim immigrants is the threat of terrorism, it seems very far fetched to call that the biggest problem in these countries when its death toll is incomparable to many other problems the countries face.
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Originally Posted by wibblefox View Post
My comment was in regards to the assertion that "illegal immigrant workers help the US economy as much as they do" which we previously discussed and concluded was false because even though they may have some positive impact they have a net negative impact.

Im pretty sure you discussed that with Pouffy not me, I havent read it - I plan on reading that part of your discussion later, but I find it extremely hard to believe that they have an overall negative effect considering how much they underpin large swathes of the agricultural sectors of american business


It implies a false dichotomy. Smoking is bad, terrorism is bad, we can get rid of both hopefully. Would blocking immigration increase smoking? No. Then why should we worry about smoking when we talk about immigration.

I don't believe that Mallymkun ever endorsed smoking.

Originally Posted by Mallymkun
Illegal immigration is the biggest threat to the US at the moment.

He stated that illegal immigration was a bigger issue than smoking, which is the claim I am challenging.
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Uh.....

http://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/2015/257528.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm


Dude, what the fuck are you on? The threat of terrorism to the United States is basically nil. I realize the motor accidents stat is from 2013, but that number is more or less the same for 2015.

I haven't looked up the exact number of terrorism deaths for europe but i'd guess around 500ish. 200-2000 for a wide estimate

Just thought I'd also say that although pig likes to say we established that illegal immigrants are a net negative, that's not only untrue in terms of how our conversation progressed but also untrue in the sense that our conversation could never actually establish something like that as certain unless we crunched numbers.

At best, based on our back and forth, it's arguable.

Stop being disingenuous, pig.
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Originally Posted by wibblefox View Post
Pretty sure that is just word play, but ok

Hes literally arguing that it is, have you missed all his posts or something?
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Originally Posted by Mallymkun View Post
If you really want to compare smoking and terrorism, one is the mass-production of laziness and unemployment; these people choose to inhale a substance based on their own convenience. While it isn't great for their bodies (I'd say it's demonstrably bad, but leave that for another thread), it isn't a threat to the western world the same way terrorism is. Like wibblefox stated, it's a false dilemma.

Statistically, smoking kills more people each year than Islamic terrorism. I don't need a study to agree with you on that as it's safely assumable. However, you're making a mistake. The level of a threat should not be determined by its current state, but its potential.


http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_stat...s/cig_smoking/

As you can see, smoking has diminished overtime and is continuing to. This is due to a number of factors, with the likes of increased cancer awareness, rehabilitation centres, trends and general social progression. Not to mention the price of cigarettes, which is going up and up.

Islamic terrorism has so much more potential.

It is a threat to the Western world, how can you say that something that kills so many people isnt a threat? The terrorist threat has a far smaller impact the the general populous of America than smoking, ergo smoking is a bigger issue for the American populous.

Can you show me a corresponding graph for terrorism since the year 2000?

The reason smoking is diminishing is because it has been focused on, as you can tell we are far from solving the issue and a lot more needs to be done, to the point where it is currently far more damaging to America than illegal immigrants

What makes you think Islamic terrorism has "so much potential" that you think its possible that its death toll will increase by factors of 10^5 and catch up with the death toll from smoking in the foreseeable future? This seems pretty far fetched to me
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Originally Posted by Mallymkun View Post
it isn't a threat to the western world the same way terrorism is.

No its far more of one since it harms the western world more than terrorism is ever going to.



The level of a threat should not be determined by its current state, but its potential.

What makes you think Islamic terrorism has "so much potential" that you think its possible that its death toll will increase by factors of 10^5 and catch up with the death toll from smoking in the foreseeable future? This seems pretty far fetched to me.



http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-1...crease/6947200


http://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-war...rorism/5355073


The rest of what you said is just a yawn-fest. It's a meaningless comparison and you know it.

We are talking about the USA, a rise of terrorism in Afganistan, Pakistan and Syria is well documented but not relevant to the current terrorist threat in the USA, can I have the graph for just the USA if you can get it?
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Originally Posted by Mallymkun View Post
The rise of terrorism in the middle east is completely relevant. It shows just how much of a mess the Iraq war was.

If we've learnt anything in 2016, it's that Islamic terrorism is a global threat. You really think the US will be spared or forgotten about in the eyes of men who hold the opinion that their way of life is the truth and the only truth? Not at all. You're responsible for destabilising the middle east, just like the UK and several other countries, which is why everyone would be sensible to take an issue like this seriously.

But no, you'd rather focus on banning smoking while thousands of women are being raped, heads are being chopped off and buildings being blown. For me there is only one issue in this current time, and it's stopping that.

Sliding goalposts? Deflection?


You said that terrorism is the greatest threat to the United States right now. I showed you that the number of American deaths due to terrorism is basically nil in comparison to deaths by, for example, motor accidents, or as Small said, smoking. The Iraq war has nothing to do with that (beyond causing a preexisting uptick to the numbers - even though they're still basically nil).

When you attempt to incite fear over threats that don't exist, that's called fearmongering. In comparison to our existing social ills, terrorism is just a drop in the glass. Although, maybe if you keep dramatically accounting deaths the numbers will magically rise.
Originally Posted by Mallymkun View Post
The rise of terrorism in the middle east is completely relevant. It shows just how much of a mess the Iraq war was.

How much of a mess the Iraq war was is still completely irrelevant, just like the rise of terrorism in countries that are not the US.

If we've learnt anything in 2016, it's that Islamic terrorism is a global threat. You really think the US will be spared or forgotten about in the eyes of men who hold the opinion that their way of life is the truth and the only truth? Not at all. You're responsible for destabilising the middle east, just like the UK and several other countries, which is why everyone would be sensible to take an issue like this seriously.

Sure, terrorist organisations like ISIS do not like the US - as such they have been trying to attack the US. In the most part they have been failing, what makes you think they will suddenly succeed to the point where they get 100000 times more deaths than they currently do?

But no, you'd rather focus on banning smoking while thousands of women are being raped, heads are being chopped off and buildings being blown. For me there is only one issue in this current time, and it's stopping that.

THOUSANDS??

Not only is the number definitely nowhere near even the hundreds in the USA, even if it had been in the thousands thats still under 1% of the death toll from smoking every year. The fact that the acts are more deliberate does not make it more of an issue for the country, certainly not to that extent.
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Originally Posted by wibblefox View Post
Because calling smoking a 'threat' at all is word play at best, so any argument building on that assertion will be at best word play.

In what way is smoking not a threat?

Smoking, and the amount the american populous does it poses a danger to a large protion of the populous, making it a threat to the American people and by extension, America - not only that combatting the negative effects of smoking, i.e. health and people missing from their jobs also poses a threat to the us economy

So yes, smoking is categorically a threat. That is not word play
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