Comment by maerF0x0
3 years ago
It also could have stopped the Gods from smiting us all, but there's no evidence that it has.
This article[1] is a good start at realizing the costs outweigh the benefits. There's little or no evidence of good caused, but plenty of evidence of harms caused.
[1]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/top-5-claims-defenders...
There is evidence of that, in fact. There were many serious terrorist attacks in Europe, like in Spain's subway (300 dead) and Frankfurt, in the aftermath of 9/11 and other...uh howmy gonna say this...other stuff, the Spanish terrorist attacks were done by Basque nationalists or such, not Muslims.
So there's your control group, Europe.