Presumably because when the public sees the faces of the babies now facing deportation back to Nauru, or hears stories like those of the alleged rape of the five-year-old boy also facing deportation, the reports and submissions come to life and more people start thinking the "collateral damage" is too high a price to pay.
These end up in the "collateral bucket" – an amalgamation of learning, latent ideas and thinking.
Indeed, as a tool and as a weapon, the term has served to sabotage thinking along traditional male/female lines — while inflicting collateral damage, which Burton's advisers disarmingly note, on clear thought along much of any lines at all.
As long as the vacant stare of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the Hilterian rants of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad embodied "Iran, Israell could avoid thinking too seriously about what military types call "collateral damage".
United are now making plans to appoint him in the summer, thinking that the trophies he wins justify the inevitable collateral damage.
"Bankers thinking about the future values of the arsenal youngsters will be thinking Collateral.
Last week's release of Michael Mann's new urban thriller, "Collateral," set a lot of critics, including Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott of The New York Times, to thinking about that particular brand of film noir native to Los Angeles.
(The Australian Broadcasting Company has video of a recent talk by Mr Assange at the Berkeley School of Journalism).But I was thinking about the comparison as a way to get a sense of moral clarity about the "Collateral Murder" video leak.
In thinking about drones strikes and targeted killings, it can be instructive to picture them hitting people you know, either deliberately or as collateral damage.
By Amy Davidson Sorkin February 20 , 2013In thinking about drones strikes and targeted killings, it can be instructive to picture them hitting people you know, either deliberately or as collateral damage.
And thinking, thinking, thinking".
