I've read Heaton's other books, and he is very good at writing about bad guys, but what is he trying to tell us by letting the bad guys in this book win everything in the end?

我读过希顿的其他书，他非常擅长写坏人，但他让书中的坏人最终赢得一切，是想告诉我们什么？

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Since the bad guys are already doing it, he told a spam-fighting conference in Amsterdam in June, the good guys should do it too, in order to develop more secure designs.

六月份他在阿姆斯特丹的反垃圾邮件大会上做了发言：既然坏蛋们已经在做了，为了开发更稳定的程序，正义人士也得这样做。

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"Even though it's a bit scary, the guns in the hands of the security people is a good thing. Were it not for that, we'd have to worry about the bad guys," Luker said.

他说：“虽然这有点吓人，但是安全人员手里有枪毕竟是好事，否则我们就会担心受到坏人的袭击。”

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"So you know in Afghanistan it's really hard to compare the good guys from the bad guys."

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The gun laws intended to put guns into the hands of "good guys" are the laws that also multiply guns in the hands of "bad guys" -- bad guys who might not have become such bad guys if the guns had not been available to their hands.

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"We are not going to put our kids in schools with shields and send them to school in bulletproof backpacks and let the good guys shoot it out with the bad guys over our kids' heads, " Watts said.

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We're supposed to have faith in the CIA's good nature and their claims that they are only killing bad guys.

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