Christchurch mosque shootings: the heartbreaking hearing

[The Valkyrie]

You may have a point. Most of the terrorists of my acquaintance have been business owners, cabbies, barmen, etc, which speaks to their ability to go unnoticed.

Sorry, but I can’t truly get my head round that these are ‘good people doing bad things’. I’ll accept that they were once good people who now do bad things, but they’ve become bad people, precisely because they’ve been groomed as you mention. 

Society condones killing to an extent, of course, but only to an extent. I doubt very much that any significant part of a relevant society looks at the killing of a child from a PIRA-planted bomb and thinks secretly ‘Well done, lads.’

And while I don’t doubt that terrorist bombers, snipers, arsonists, think of themselves as ‘good’ people, that’s really not a useful  metric - no one (apart from a very short list of true sociopaths) thinks of themselves as evil.

Boru

I'm not sure they would consider themselves "good" people. More like "necessary" people.

They see whatever they do as necessary "for the cause", whatever their actions.

I could be wrong, of course.