-- The "Criminal Personality" Discovers a "Market Niche"

As most of us probably realize, or will finally realize, once we will have grown up enough, that there are always a certain percentage of people who consistently prove unable to work out an honest solution to a problem. There could be 2,000 honest solutions to a particular problem. Yet, they will invariably reject every one of them, even if they could perceive the existence of those honest solutions, in order to select a dishonest one or, if not, to put a dishonest "spin" onto it. It is a personality flaw common with every population and culture and probably something to do with the way we assimilate into our culture. It is a very complex subject and, frankly, I don't understand most of it.

Likewise, when there is a real problem of security, such as in a public building, instead of working out an honest solution, there are always people who select dishonest solutions that trample all over everyone's rights -- except their own, of course -- and use the argument of "security" to rationalize it. Then, quite naturally, there are always a group of very naive people who readily accept it without giving any serious thought to the legal repercussions or the contradictions to law and civil rights. Some people, who ought to know better, can be remarkably stupid and thoughtless.