Good point, this is probably the gist of it. I imagine this particular case went something like this...
We have stuff that can't go offsite what do we do? Burn it. Why? Because that's what we always have done. Why? Because it is cheap, fast and it works anywhere. Ok, lets just burn it. Good burn it. Ok here is the burn pile dump secret trash in. We don't have a list of dangerous stuff to burn just a bunch of stuff with no other costly or timely plan to dispose of and everyone has 100 other important things to do like process stuff that is still useful and not being burned. Just burn it and save the country with a more important task on the 100 point todo list. Ok done, and had time to save the country left. Oops we burned carcinogens. Who? No idea ... something in the pile. Will we ever know? No way to know but xyz is highly classified so no can do.
Somewhere somehow the risk of material leaving site exceeded the risk of burning carcinogens. We can't ever let anyone know what we burned. That's why we burned it. The institutions rights again exceed the humans rights. Why? Because institutes are few controlling many. Why? Because humans are mostly automatic and predictable. Why? Because we programmed them to be. Why? Because we are lazy and useless without successful programming and hedonism rules the land otherwise. What's wrong with hedonism? We get complacent and die faster to the trillions of dangers we have successfully mitigated with our institutions. Ok burn it. Got it.
We have stuff that can't go offsite what do we do? Burn it. Why? Because that's what we always have done. Why? Because it is cheap, fast and it works anywhere. Ok, lets just burn it. Good burn it. Ok here is the burn pile dump secret trash in. We don't have a list of dangerous stuff to burn just a bunch of stuff with no other costly or timely plan to dispose of and everyone has 100 other important things to do like process stuff that is still useful and not being burned. Just burn it and save the country with a more important task on the 100 point todo list. Ok done, and had time to save the country left. Oops we burned carcinogens. Who? No idea ... something in the pile. Will we ever know? No way to know but xyz is highly classified so no can do.
Somewhere somehow the risk of material leaving site exceeded the risk of burning carcinogens. We can't ever let anyone know what we burned. That's why we burned it. The institutions rights again exceed the humans rights. Why? Because institutes are few controlling many. Why? Because humans are mostly automatic and predictable. Why? Because we programmed them to be. Why? Because we are lazy and useless without successful programming and hedonism rules the land otherwise. What's wrong with hedonism? We get complacent and die faster to the trillions of dangers we have successfully mitigated with our institutions. Ok burn it. Got it.