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So, I was thinking about a brief exchange I had a little while ago with @gattsuru, as well as an earlier thread on the arrest of the guy who started the Palisades fire (plus perhaps some other comments here and there about how mass shooters and such tend to have poor target selection, as is entirely understandable with their being of generally unsound mind), I find myself asking: setting aside very-low-probability scenarios, how much damage could a reasonably-competent solitary actor — “a lone man with a grudge against the world,” to quote @Edawayac_Tosscount — pull off in a single “attack”?
There are still many places in which one man is invested with the responsibility to avoid causing a lot of damage. Say, the guy who steers freighters through the suez or panama canals. Airline pilots. Just become that guy and fail at your job hard enough. All it takes is youth and patience and baseline learning ability and zero fucks given about the consequences for yourself. I think specifically of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525 .
I think that's pretty much the most you can do with "reasonably competent solitary actor".
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