said by vic102482 :

Correct. They are taught in bomb making and terrorism classes. But you won't be admitted to one unless you're police, army or CIA.
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Traffic officers certainly do learn it as they're part of the pool of officers are are chosen as candidates.

As a degreed engineer (M.E. & mathematics) I'm well aware that even the G.E. requirements for my M.E. major required not only more than enough chemistry to make explosives, but also enough E.E. to build a charge and trigger and of course enough M.E. to design the casing of a such a device so that it would have rather nasty effects if detonated.

Now I'm not out running around blowing crap up nor have the slightest urge to. And that isn't because I took ethics which at my school was a joke class in itself. The only ethics I was forced to take was a propaganda class on how being an engineer will lead me to destroying the fragile planet we live on and how we should all move back into caves. The same for these students. Just because they're taught the skills doesn't mean that there is going to be a wave of new spammers graduated from it.

With your logic we could also scrap chemistry, biology, programming, C.E., M.E., archery or any other class that teaches skills that could be used to do harm in one way or another.
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Traffic officers don't learn it. Homicide detectives don't learn it.

And the police certainly do not teach bomb making when they deliver lectures at high schools and colleges.

As for chemistry courses, there is making an explosive, and there is making a bomb. There is a difference.

If you'd studied engineering you would be aware of that difference. But you'd also (hopefully) have been immersed in the concepts of ethics first.
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said by LaserjetXX :

Why don't we offer a class on how to make explosives?

They already do, it's called Chemistry 101 and 102. Any student who pays attention in Chemistry class can make a moderately effective bomb w/o much hassle.

said by LaserjetXX :

Or a class on pickpocketing?

They already have that too... it's called Law School.

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said by LaserjetXX :

Why don't we offer a class on how to make explosives? Or a class on pickpocketing? If we better understand how these work we'll be able to stop them!

So a person that has a job as a bomb diffuser with policeor FBI doesnt know how to make them?
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