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I don't blame ya, I'd want to know if there was bomb.
But you just learned the most important lesson of your high school years: Don't follow people blindly. And don't put your life in anyone's hands unless you have taken an oath to do so. Below there is little story about what happens to those who let other people make life-and-death decisions for them.
As people were leaving the second tower at the WTC (after the plane hit the first one) there was announcement telling the people to go back to their offices. One company, a Japanese software firm, had all Japanese managers who promptly went back up the stairs and encouraged their American employees to do the same. To a person, the Americans refused to go back and got out in plenty of time before the second 767 came down the corridor. We still think for ourselves in America - that has not changed.
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