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> We will shut down the entire city and hunt these people down like dogs. At the cost of a $1 Billion/day economy. At the inconvenience to its population. You'
by rcfox 14y ago
> We will shut down the entire city and hunt these people down like dogs. At the cost of a $1 Billion/day economy. At the inconvenience to its population.
You're saying this like it's a good thing...
- pnathan 14y agoIt confuses me how spending hours and hours of media budget and locking an entire city down is the appropriate response. If I was a terrorist-type, I'd really see an opportunity to hurt the US here. As I am not a terrorist type, I believe that the best thing to do is - in the inimitable words of the British - Keep Calm and Carry On. Let the evils rage and deal with them calmly and minimize all disruption. edit: RMS makes a good point IMO: if you want to paralyze a 1 Billion/day economy in the pursuit of 4 people murdered, that doesn't seem fruitful in the context of an accident levelling 1/4 mile around a chemical plant: Perhaps pouring several billion into improving safety and monitoring at chemical plants would significantly improve many more lives.
- tzs 14y ago> RMS makes a good point IMO: if you want to paralyze a 1 Billion/day economy in the pursuit of 4 people murdered That's not a good point, because it was not in the pursuit of 4 people murdered. It was in pursuit of the likely future murders if the bombers were not caught.
- scott_s 14y agoEver seen The Usual Suspects? He's making the Keyser Soze argument: "Then he showed those men of will what will really was." In other words: these are the lengths we are willing to go to. You can not get away with it. I'm not arguing for it, but I think that is certainly what it is.