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MOO, but any Westerner who willfully travels to such a conflicted area not on official "We, the people" governmental business, and in spite of the numerous reports and warnings, knowing full well the historical situation there and our limited influence and access, is telling our collective governments:
"Thank you very much for the information; I fully understand the risks but I'm checking the block which waives those reasonably implied 'guarantees' of my personal safety, absolving y'all of any responsibility in the matter, and going to do what I want to do anyway."
So be it.
RE: #4, #7 and #13. I may be in error, but it sounds to me as if the "we" being tossed around so freely, used in the context of such statements, means somebody else.
That being said, based upon my experiences, the supposition that "we" are doing little to nothing to attempt to resolve the dire straits in which this particular citizen placed himself, even if he checked that waiver box, is naive in the extreme.
Richard
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
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