Crypto-anonymity greases HUMINT intelligence flows

[Meyer Wolfsheim]

On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Jim Choate wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Sandy Sandfort wrote:
>
> > Thanks, but I'd go a bit further.  The percentage of humans who would be
> > capable of such evil has to be vanishingly small.  Unfortunately, that
> > percentage is not zero so this sort of thing continues to happen.
>
> Unmitigated bullshit, again.
>
> People, most people, will do whatever the hell they feel justified in
> doing. Concepts like 'good' or 'evil' are the fundamental failing of your
> argument. They are not universal.

See my second to last post, Jim. I cannot think of any massive terrorist
attack in which personal gain was the only motive. If there are any, the
number is extremely small.

Different societies have different definitions of evil; some evils are
hard to justify by any means, however.


-MW-