Watching the news reports on both Boston bombing and Texas industrial disaster, I am struck by the continuous search for the root causes of each event. Americans want to know what happened, how it happened, how it grew from idea to action, what motivated the terrorists, how houses came to be allowed to mushroom into an immediate adjacent neighbourhood to a very dangerous facility, what are the social characteristics and contexts for these events and so on. In fact, Justin Trudeau was exactly right in honestly explaining that as PM he would want to know everything about this instead of resorting to a knee jerk ideological religious dogma about good and evil and punishment. Thinker versus Bully? I am about to send a donation to the Liberal Party and to The Canadian Liver foundation. I find Harperism intolerable and offensive to every kind of decency in a modern democracy.
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