RE: Christchurch mosque shootings: the heartbreaking hearing
September 1, 2020 at 7:59 pm
(This post was last modified: September 1, 2020 at 8:05 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 1, 2020 at 7:02 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 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
Some significant part does, and that enables the act. While no one thinks of themselves as evil - I would suggest we see further - to conceive of ways that people could act the way that they do without, in any sense, actually being evil. If they were evil, truly evil, we wouldn't have as much trouble as we do spotting them before the fact. It's a very useful metric, because understanding what legitimate concerns draw people to illegitimate responses is something that we -have- to understand, and truly grapple with...if...we want to reduce the rate of incidence.
It's truly concerning, for example, that both white supremacy and islamism lead to the same outcome. The death of the impure.
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