[FUNdamental]

Question #11, Most of all, I'd like to know what you would do in the situation where it was your decision on whether or not to open "the box". Just pretend that you're in charge of security in a high-rise office building and there's a suspicious box in the lobby. It certainly looks like a bomb. The person responsible for placing it there SAID it was a bomb. Sure, some other people said it wasn't a bomb, but can you trust them? Can THEY see inside the box? Do you take a chance and wait for it to explode or do you make the decision to go in and disarm it? You don't know whether or not it's really a bomb until one of those events occurs. See, you can't really answer this one honestly, can you DUH? The reasonable action is to take the safest approach and proceed to disarm it. The most stupid thing you can do is to ignore it, for if your assessment is wrong many people could die - many whose safety is entrusted to you. Make your decision, but either way you lose. Either you'll choose the unreasonable choice (leaving the box alone) or you'll be forced to admit that GWB took the appropriate action.


I thought the president focused most of his attention on the "other" box. You know, the one that had been empty for years.