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| 41 | Bill Clinton. He was amazingly human. It was right near the end of his presidency, and he seemed really bummed out. That made me respect him more, because I had never seen him on tv without a smirk, no matter how serious the issue he was discussing was. | Who is the most famous celebrity you have met? |
| 42 | I don't remember noticing any racism while growing up. | What is your earliest or strongest memory of experiencing racism while growing up? |
| 43 | I'm a bit surprised by your statement, considering your background. "Hebephrenic" refers to someone diagnosed with disorganized Schizophrenia (characterized by such things as hallucinations, delusions, and unusual affect). "Psychopathy" is a popular term that people sometimes use to refer to anti-social personality disorder. Neither of these terms indicates in any way that someone lacks a personality. On the contrary, anti-social types often impress a lot of people with how personable they can come off (think of Ted Bundy). | Do you know someone who has been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder? |
| 44 | Anti-social personality disorder has a very specific checklist of symptoms, which you can find in the DSM. But basically, it means you do whatever you have to do to get whatever you happen to want in the moment, unconstricted by feelings of empathy, fear, guilt, or any other "superego" emotions most people would consider normal. Part of anti-social people's strategy for getting what they want usually involves feigning concern for and interest in other people. They are often really good at it, which makes them dangerous. Ted Bundy apparently came off to most people as being a really great guy. People who had known him, even for many years, were completely shocked when they found out he was a serial killer. | Do you know someone who has been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder? |
| 45 | Kristal: I don't know whether you have any desire to "fix" any of the experiences you describe, but I have a feeling some of it is a blood-sugar regulation issue. If you cut out all the caffeine and sugar, you might not experience so many or so extreme highs and lows. | Do you know someone who has been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder? |
| 46 | You wrote: "On American television, they alter the size of their country in order to make it look bigger." Could you please give a specific reference or two to where/when this has been done? | Do you think that President Bush should have thanked Canada? |
| 47 | It would depend on what I actually saw of the other building, how far up I was, and what was going on at my job at that time. It wouldn't have occurred to me that there might be a second collision, but it would likely have occurred to me, if I saw the state of the building next door, that it might topple over onto my building. Instructions given over a loudspeaker from unknown parties would not have influenced my decision very much. Do we know exactly who it was that gave those instructions, and under what authority? | Would you have evacuated the World Trade Center, against the instructions of building security? |
| 48 | Whether this had happened or not, we should (but of course won't) stop supporting Israel. Targeting one supposed leader like Osama bin Laden or a few individuals involved in this particular act will do no good; more like them will spring up immediately from the same soil. We need to occupy and divide Afghanistan, like we did with Germany after WWII, and crush any uprisings swiftly. We should tell our supposed ally countries to put up or shut up. Words of condolence are irrelevant; if they truly support us they will participate in military action with us. We should obviously review our security policy and technology, and then hire people with IQs higher than gerbils to implement it. People who at least have a conception that there are other weapons than guns. Technology should be developed and implemented so that we can control a hijacked plane from the ground. I'm predicting we won't do most of this. We may punish a few individuals, but the root causes will not be adequately addressed, we will go back to thinking we're invincible, and something as bad or worse will happen again in a few years. | What do you think the US should do to prevent terrorist attacks? |
| 49 | More surveillance and security is not the answerNot necessarily more security, but better security. After the planes left their flight plans, why didn't we veer them down with some f-16s?Because at the time, we surely assumed the highjackers would land somewhere and make demands. Are you suggesting that immediately after noticing the planes diverging, we should have endangered innocent American lives, just on the off-chance the highjackers were on a suicide mission??! What if we were wrong and we crashed a plane full of innocent civilians for no reason? By the time we could be certain what was going on, it was too late to do anything about it. I wouldn't mind if ALL information was public.You're welcome to post your information, but don't speak for others. Personally, I know firsthand one of the ill effects of information in the wrong hands, after having spent numerous hours clearing up a case of attempted identity theft. If the terrorists had had media time instead, they would have either gained support for their (non-militaristic) views, or found that their position has no support, at which point they would hopefully realize that their position is best kept to themselves, instead of resorting to terrorism to get their position broadcast.Oh My Goddess. And then let's all sit down to tea together, shall we??? The concept that these people would say "Oh, ok, well most people don't agree with us, so we'll stop" is almost as surreal as the attacks themselves. I'm sure it's Osama and his crew, and they've HAD plenty of media time. They've made their views well-known. They want them implemented, not just known. People who want to live in an abortion free community can do so without insisting the rest of the global confederation of tribes do soI like your idea of allowing communities with such strong beliefs to live by these beliefs in their own corner of the world, neither imposing their beliefs on anyone nor having beliefs imposed on them. In this situation, however, they were not allowed to do that. Jews forcibly stole a portion of their corner of the world away, provoking them. We supported this. We are to some extent to blame for our own predicament. | What do you think the US should do to prevent terrorist attacks? |
| 50 | No, more security and better security are not the same thing. Just because we did a few showy things supposedly to stop future acts of terrorism doesn't mean we were being smart about our development or implementation of technology, and it definitely doesn't mean that we got any better at the people side of the equation. The people who are hired to implement the most important security are usually the lowest-paid, least trained, and least intelligent. The best laid security plans won't work if you rely on morons to carry them out... The "karma" explanation some people give is repulsive to me. Aside from being untrue, this particular delusion only serves to provide comfort that there is a reason and order to things, while blaming the victim... There's no way we could have forced a safe landing. And our previous experience would suggest this wasn't the thing to do. Your gunman in the house analogy is flawed. A better analogy is a gunman headed towards the children's room already carrying children, with a knife to their throats, PLUS previous experience to suggest that if we let the gunman proceed, he will make some demands and quite possibly release the children at some point in the future... You are making a straw man argument with your "You would have only hackers..." statement. That is nothing remotely like what I wrote. There is a hell of a lot of middle ground between all information being public and the scenario you describe.... STILL what? dab: It really deeply and profoundly sucks, that one effect of this will be to increase support for Israel. | What do you think the US should do to prevent terrorist attacks? |
