[sparklite2]

How Do You Stop a Future Terrorist When the Only Evidence Is a Thought?

---

The KGB knew how. You make the consequences to him, his family, and his loved ones so draconian, immediate, and inevitable that the thought dies in his head before it ever reaches the state of execution.

It just depends on how serious you are about stopping terrorism.

[TangibleDisgust]

there is an idiom that most people here in the West don’t understand. it’s called “to the ninth degree” or “to the nth degree” and is used to mean “to a great extent or with extreme thoroughness”. it’s not uncommon to hear English speakers say this about one mundane thing or another.

the story of its origin is not generally known though:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_familial_exterminations