RT> TR> I certainly understand this philosophy. There are a lot of sick
 RT> TR> people out there. Is there any logical reason why we should provide
 RT> TR> the information to fulfill their destructive fantasies?
 RT> Is there any reason why we should have people expecting to get
 RT> allowances for their behaviour and not accept personal responsibility
 RT> for their actions?
Ah, therein lies the rub - for what we do by accepting the scenario that says 
the perp was already sick and he who supplied the instruction aggravated the 
problem is to send a message that nobody is responsible for his acts if he 
uses information gleaned from another wrongly.
For example - in my home there lives a troubled 21-year-old with a 
prescription drug problem, who's recovering (and will be for the rest of her 
life).  She has lapsed - and one lapse involved allowing a friend to 
introduce 
her to the joys of injected heroin. SHE made the choice, in possession of 
information that should have told her that it was not safe, not right, and 
potentially deadly - but she made her choice anyhow.  She ended up spending a 
few days in withdrawal - pretty horrid days they were, too - but she refuses 
to blame her friend,because, as she says, 'She didn't put a gun to my head, I 
CHOSE to do it, and it was a bad bad choice,  The worse that can be said is 
that she supplied it - but I CHOSE to use it.'  She may be an addict, but she 
understands who has the problem.  I'm angry at her 'friend' - but I 
understand 
her point, and must applaud her taking the responsibility for her acts 
instead 
of making some other idiot the badguy.
 RT> TR> For the same
 RT> TR> reason, should we provide the information for third world countries
 RT> TR> to build nuclear devices? Why should we provide the information to
 RT> TR> victimize ourselves? 
 RT> I don't think that we are the only nation or group of people that has
 RT> that information.
Nuclear device covers a multitude of sins - and the same technology is useful 
for power production, transport, or weapons.  When does it go from 'good' to 
'bad' - and how do we restrict the 'bad' part of the knowledge, particularly 
when others have what it takes to build the 'good' part?
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