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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/18/2012 9:31 AM, Gary Crabtree
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Calibri">Since you are absolutely
convinced that detailed lists are totally benign, let's make
available a roster of everyone who has ever sought or been
given treatment for any and every mental health condition?
After all, it's all for the greater good and what could
possibly go wrong? Why track a tool when you can track the
potential user?</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Calibri">Heck this detailed list
idea is so good why not expand it to organizations, books,
movies, and music. Absolutely anything that might even hint at
inspiring violence. I'm sure that a community conscious
individual such as your self couldn't possibly object to a
little bit of scrutiny in exchange for a small measure of
potential safety, right?</font></div>
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Computer science types are watchful that they don't trap themselves
into attempting to compute something that would take very long
periods of time (longer than a human lifetime, for example) to
compute. Sometimes a different algorithm can render a problem more
computationally tractable, and sometimes not.<br>
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Analogously, making the lists you are suggesting here would be an
administrative burden not unlike attempting to calculate every facet
of everything. Practically, i.e., within reasonable time frames, not
to mention with any sort of logical clarity, it just can not be
accomplished.<br>
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Let's take, for example, your phrase "absolutely anything that might
even hint at inspiring violence." OK, let's consider just a triple
of tomes: the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the Qur'an, and
those who read and adhere to one or more of them in some fashion.
The administrative result is a list of Jews, Christians, and
Muslims, three groups of people about whom it is true to suggest
that some among them have been inspired to violence by what they
read in one or more of those volumes.<br>
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What are we to do with such a list of people? Declare them all
mentally ill, and then refer them for psychiatric treatment? Oh, by
the way, how is society's supply of secular humanist psychiatrists
and religious cult deprogrammers? Oops. Analogous to the
electronically ancient computer with one processor operating at a
slow clock speed, the process for accomplishing all that work would
take an unacceptably long time, and since we know that in advance of
starting such a process, we won't start the process.<br>
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These practical considerations, plus the rights of people to pursue
the happiness of their own brands of insanity in the privacy of
their own homes, or places of worship, such as movie houses
screening Disney flicks, opera houses presenting Wagnerian almost
anything, or book clubs discussing romance novels with pink covers
and numbers on their spines, means that it is highly unlikely that
anytime soon anyone is going to attempt to pry a Bible from anyone
else's cold dead fingers. So, relax.<br>
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Ken<br>
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