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Re:Patriot Act amendment needing a warrant for browsing hist... by remram on Thursday May 14, 2020 @11:58AM (#23181076)
You assume that every terrorist (or most terrorists) acts rationally and has the knowledge you know. That is a huge assumption for your reasoning to work.

I think terrorists make mistakes (or take risks), and I'm not convinced that we catch all of those either.

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Re:Patriot Act amendment needing a warrant for browsing hist... by pyronik19 on Thursday May 14, 2020 @12:22PM (#23181438)
In the context of droning terrorist, I think the anthropic principle applies. The ones who don't act rationally or have that knowledge are dead.
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Re:Patriot Act amendment needing a warrant for browsing hist... by remram on Thursday May 14, 2020 @07:07PM (#23186711)
Once again, that is just your opinion, presented as fact. Personally I would argue that people acting rationally stay away from the terrorism business.
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Re:Patriot Act amendment needing a warrant for browsing hist... by badrabbit on Friday May 15, 2020 @01:31AM (#23189190)
If you were in their shoes and america exterminated your family,how would you react? Killing civilians is evil and horrible but in their case they are being very rational.

Was the US being irrational with nuking of japan?

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Re:Patriot Act amendment needing a warrant for browsing hist... by azinman2 on Thursday May 14, 2020 @03:32PM (#23184269)
You’re assuming a static world.
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