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AnimalMuppet on Jan 30, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: 'Karma': A hack used by the UAE to break into iPho...

I think, even in places that believed the maxim, 9/11 changed the calculation. Now the question is: How many innocent people should be jailed in order that 3000 innocent people not be killed?

Mind you, I'm not saying it's right. I'm just saying that this is how the authorities are thinking.

Scoundreller on Jan 30, 2019 [–]

Or how many billions of hour-lives should we steal a minute or hour at a time from to save X lives?

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