But then stopping terrorism should fall somewhere around where the statistics say it should on priority list (adding in the anger/trauma). So right around vending machine accidents or whatever? Those are additive as well.

Terrorism disproportionately dominates our media attention, but has a small affect on our death rate. Of course we should stop it if we can. But why place a larger priority on it than something that is more damaging to us (even after weighing in the negative emotions)?

I get it. Terrorism is scary and it's easy to have empathy for the victims. But if we accept car deaths as a consequence of modern life, than why not terrorism deaths? That I don't get.