Terrorist ideologies are absolutist and fundamentalist. The mental habits that engineering cultivates are unfortunately compatible with this way of thinking in

Terrorist ideologies are absolutist and fundamentalist. The mental habits that engineering cultivates are unfortunately compatible with this way of thinking in political and spiritual/religious realms. There is an absolute truth and an absolute right and wrong, etc. I've never met a "terrorist" but I have known a surprising number of engineers who subscribe to totalitarian politics and/or religious fundamentalism. At first I found this shocking and confusing.