Re: its wrong, but i am laughing inside.
[FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][quote=bart_smastard]Bollox to the racial profiling bit . Common sense saves lives, protecting peoples sensibilities comes 2nd to lives i'm afraid . Call me old fashioned but bing inconveinienced is alot less painless than bing torn apart by a bomb .Just an opinion .
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It's tempting, because profiling based upon race, gender, age, religion, and political affiliation [I]are[/I] effective measures for combatting crime from specific and known types of person. For example, men are a couple orders of magnitude more likely to commit any violent crime than women are, so at first glance it seems to make sense to focus all your investigative efforts on men; it'll yield the most bang for you enforcement buck, right?
It works, but the price is too high. I have much greater fear of living in a society where it's a crime to be male, or young, or dark-skinned, or muslim, than a society that suffers very rare and mild terrorist attacks. (Killing Americans at 0.001% the rate of common car accidents.)
Personally, [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]I'd rather take a 1:1,000,000,000 chance on not getting hit by a suicide bomber while living a nice life than take a 1:2 chance that I'll suffer at the hands of the government so that they can ensure (and really, they can't even do that) that I won't get hit by a terrorist.[/SIZE][/FONT]