What should the sentencing guidelines be for a convicted arsonist?
1) Probation, as long as he allows us to send inspectors into his house and look in at least some of the rooms and we don’t find any matches, even though most of the house is locked up and inaccessible, and even though the house is full of Bic lighters
OR
2) Lock him up and take all his fire starter equipment away so that he can't do it again
Some of you have been a little slow on the uptake, so let me help out.
These "Homeland (In)Security" and "Progressive Economics" quiz questions are satirical and designed to illustrate how ridiculous some arguments sound if you put them into a different context. For example, one might relate today's question to pre-invasion Iraq and the absurd argument that if we had just continued sending UN inspectors in, everything would be fine today.
Choose your answers wisely from now on - I'll not be providing the correct ones anymore.
Roger Merryfield
Midwest Voices 2008
"These "Homeland (In)Security" and "Progressive Economics" quiz questions are satirical"
They're stupid. For example:
"For example, one might relate today's question to pre-invasion Iraq and the absurd argument that if we had just continued sending UN inspectors in, everything would be fine today."
Problem for Roger is that no one is in fact making that "absurd argument."
"Choose your answers wisely from now on - I'll not be providing the correct ones anymore."
We'll hold you to that promise, Roger. We'll also observe that the general dumbness quotient of this site will be kept down if you simply refrain from posting altogether.