> > See above. Any exclusionary or inclusionary criteria you can add to > a profile will only server to narrow the scope. Saying we are looking for > a > man is not nearly as desrcript as saying we are looking for a white > agnostic > man in his early 40's, overweight, with brown hair, slightly greying, blue > eyes and loves Ethyl Murmon music. The latter give us a much finer scope at > whom to look at.
Even in your own example you've shown you aren't really having this conversation in good faith. Who's advocating only using "a man" as a profile? You are making it seem like my choice is just to say "a man" and your choice is the extremely accurate profile, right down to his musical tastes. That's disingenuous at best. Would you disregard the Christians who are in their early 40's, overweight, with brown hair, slightly greying, blue eyes and that love Ethyl Murmom music? I think not. Furthermore, how much does agnostic add to this profile? How do you prove someone is agnostic? How, at a glance, do you tell the difference between an agnostic and a religious person? In all your arguments you make it seem like the people investigating terrorism just have a phone book sized list of names and need to pare it down to find terrorists. If investigating terrorism is a process of elimination based on criteria of a profile I think we're in MUCH bigger trouble than arguing the merit of adding religion to a profile. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:291934 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
