Durandal wrote:Except that Hussein wasn't paying them, was he? He paid off their families and provided a sort of suicide bomber life insurance policy. Tell me, if a life insurance firm provided coverage for suicide, does that mean that they encourage their customers to commit suicide?
It would, if the insurance company was created for the sole purpose of providing suicide insurance.
Master of Ossus wrote:
Yes, they are. They are making people more willing to get into accidents than if the insurance did not exist. The effect, however, is very small.
As was the effect of Hussein's fund for families.
Then you admit there was an effect, even if it was "small"?
White Cat wrote:Then you admit there was an effect, even if it was "small"?
"Small" as in "insignificant," as in "Jupiter's gravitational pull on you right now." It is perfectly acceptable to dismiss certain factors in a measurement which contribute negligible amounts. Scientists do it all the time.
Damien Sorresso
"Ever see what them computa bitchez do to numbas? It ain't natural. Numbas ain't supposed to be code, they supposed to quantify shit."
- The Onion
