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Oh there's so much more. The sinking of Columbus' ship Santa María comes to mind, the death of Marie Curie by cancer, the risks Franklin took when proving lightning was electricity and the murder of William Bullock by his printing-machine. Here are some more: http://listverse.com/2008/12/14/10-inventors-killed-by-their-inventions/

The thing is, the greatest discoveries very often come at a great risk. The risk-averse culture than has steadily been introduced since, say, the 1970s probably greatly holds back mankinds progress. No longer are victims of cutting-edge technologic failures hero's, instead their designers are the victim of outrage and lawsuits. This makes me very sad. Risks are not something bad, risks are things taken by brave people. Very often those people are the ones responsible for great leaps in mankinds progress.

Therefore the argument you quote is not just a good argument, it is a great argument. Wimps that cannot handle it should stay away from it and keep their mouth shut.

They forgot to add humans, right? http://listverse.com/2008/03/14/top-10-evil-human-experiments/

Afghanistan is the most mined country

Afghanistan comes in 4th according to this source. I was a little surprised that Egypt tops that list.

Original stories:
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/10457/
http://listverse.com/2009/01/06/9-gruesome-fairy-tale-origins/
http://www.cracked.com/article_15962_gruesome-origins-5-popular-fairy-tales.html

I really hope they aren't. If they do, I'll cry when MSGM announces its first product - the Microsoft Wheels. Also, roads will pass Iraq to become the Most Dangerous Place on Earth.

Especially since we at slashdot support pathetic excuses for all the errors committed by males in science and engineering:

http://listverse.com/science/top-10-worst-engineering-disasters/

Or, you train yourself to fake the reactions that are caused by lying answers, and do them when getting the control questions at the start. Tightening the anal sphincter is a good one :p Though to be good at that you have to learn to do it without contracting your butt-cheeks at the same time (saw it being discussed on QI, as one of the official answers of course)

http://listverse.com/science/top-10-tips-for-beating-a-lie-detector/

Justifications may have needed some work in some cases but there is nothing random about US invasions, no lack of reasons. Popular reasons in reason history consisted of the spread of communism and shooting at us.

The problem with this argument / logic is that the United States (via its administrations & intelligence agencies) is guilty of even worse transgressions, so other countries have more than adequate justification for attacking us.

Justification / rationalizations may sound good when pitching the story to popular media, but aren't good for long-term stability. "Eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind" - at some we've got to stop poking eyes out, even if we can justify it.

Need some examples of US action that other countries could (have?) use for justification of military/terrorist action against the US? Check out this sobering list of CIA "secret mercenary armies".

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