AW: AW: [ RadSafe ] New Airport X-Rays Scan Bodies, Not Just Bags

Steven Dapra sjd at swcp.com
Sun Mar 4 11:27:47 CST 2007


March 4

         Yes, we need to understand motive.  If we don't understand motive 
we will never be able to devise an intellectually rigorous and 
philosophically sound solution.  I believe it is known elsewhere as root 
cause analysis.

Steven Dapra


At 02:14 AM 3/4/07 -0500, Syd H. Levine wrote:
>John:
>
>You wanted to know what I meant in my earlier email (which email did not 
>reach the list since I was on a different account), well you just stated 
>it succinctly.
>
>"Maybe if we understood their motivation, we could prevent future acts of 
>terrorism."
>
>Can you understand the killing of innocents no matter how oppressed the 
>offenders argue they may be?  I hope you cannot.  Subhuman is a figure of 
>speech of course, but if anything is subhuman behavior, it is terrorism. 
>Would you have argued we needed to understand motivation at Nuremburg?

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