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Jesus H.

Submitted by casseia on Tue, 2008-10-28 15:40.

I have what has become for me an inevitable question when faced with such eagerness to swallow whole the scary Islamofascist mythos (bin Laden had no negotiable demands! they just hate our decadent culture! aaaaaahhh!) and I found the answer at wikipedia.

"[I]t would not be irrational to keep one's child out of a river that had no previous fatalities after hearing that a neighbor's child was attacked there by a crocodile that morning: there was no crocodile in the river before then, but now there is."

This is a good metaphor. What if your neighbor was a pathological liar and child molester and a neighborhood kid had gone missing -- eaten by a crocodile, according to your other neighbor, Harley Guy? What would be the significance, then, of just putting your head down and keeping your own child out of the river? Any actions taken to promote security rely on accurate information about reality. (duh.) Faith-based hypocritical crap is not gonna work.

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