Dateline: June 12, 2013.
Philosophical questions about the Dept of Homeland (In)Security?
If there is a high probability of finding a terrorist by profiling, thus keeping the haystack as small as possible, why would you make the haystack bigger?
Answers:
1. You don’t want to or care if you find the needle.
2. You want more people looking for the needle.
3. You don’t care if people get hurt when you don’t or can’t find the needle.
4. There is no purpose to the whole process except to provide jobs with no expected results.
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To turn my leering leaching eye to the realm of "Notes", for example "Community Notes" and all other sources of information sometimes also called data either for or not for "checking" or any other purpose such as research. Can there be identified anything that is useless before one's encounter with such note (source)?
Requisite condition: How would one know for themself?
Do I hear it now? What you say?
Self-assigned complication rating: <1>). Or maybe zero.
Point: Everything old is always new to some or many.
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What I am quite but not completely sure of is that I would support not preventing anyone from not doing what they do not want to do. However, in some situations I would not recommend such behavior.
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