{"id":2685,"date":"2002-11-21T22:56:48","date_gmt":"2002-11-21T22:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=442"},"modified":"2002-11-21T22:56:48","modified_gmt":"2002-11-21T22:56:48","slug":"a-rational-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2685","title":{"rendered":"A RATIONAL RESPONSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Volokh conspirator Philippe de Croy <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.blogspot.com\/2002_11_17_volokh_archive.html#85701594\">makes sense<\/a> on how we respond to terrorism in a post critical of the terrible &#8216;Total Information Awareness&#8217; program.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>There is a more general moral here. In the coming years, things are going to get worse in this country in two respects: (a) some of us are going to be killed by Islamic terrorists and (b) we are going to forfeit some things we like about our civilization in order to reduce the number of those killings. We are going to spend a lot of time making trade-offs between these evils over the coming years. Our goal should be to minimize their sum. It therefore is imperative that we recognize measures taken in the name of safety as trade-offs and debate them in those terms, without being cowed by the logic that every measure the government says will help decrease terrorism is therefore a good idea.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Volokh conspirator Philippe de Croy makes sense on how we respond to terrorism in a post critical of the terrible &#8216;Total Information Awareness&#8217; program. There is a more general moral here. In the coming years, things are going to get worse in this country in two respects: (a) some of us are going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}