Re: Foiled terror plot aboard Northwest Flight 253 sparks strict security rules for air passengers

[chris () blask org]

--- On Sun, 12/27/09, der Mouse <mouse () rodents-montreal org> wrote:

> While I know it isn't true of me personally, I feel sure it
> is true of some fraction of IT-sec people (though I also 
> suspect that fraction is quite small) but is it true of the 
> industry?  I don't know.

The numbers are IM(not)HO small enough that the point is irrelevant.  Does the industry "create viruses to create 
business" (as I have been asked innumerable times)?  

No.

> Organizations often exhibit epiphenomenal behaviour very
> different from and not directly traceable to the behaviours 
> of the individuals making them up.

I think you have to stray into theology or at least philosophy to have a realistic basis for this point.  It's 
somewhere in the realm of "There is no such thing as altruism, the Actor always performs the Act for their own selfish 
purpose."  Even if 'true' it makes no difference.


> Even if restricted to "the West", I doubt that's so; there
> are enough soldiers that I feel reasonably sure there are at 
> least a few who really don't much care either way - 

Same as above.  (and "Hindmost" is capitalized... ;~)

> and 
> substantially more, enough to speak of them as a fraction rather 
> than a count of invidivuals, who just want him dead and justice (FWVO 
> "justice") take the hindmost.

A smart grunt knows that - however much satisfaction there would be in shooting bin Laden - having him die in a cell of 
advanced old age (after a few decades on a heart-lung machine) is much better.

-chris


      

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