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He is not positing a general theory of income inequality and extremism merely offering a hypothesis for recent extremism in the middle east. Saying "I think X i
by ramason 11y ago
He is not positing a general theory of income inequality and extremism merely offering a hypothesis for recent extremism in the middle east. Saying "I think X is the cause of Y in country Z" is not the same thing as saying X is always the cause of Y in all countries all the time.
- bko 11y agoIf you can make causes conditional to one particular location, how is that a good explanation? Are extremists more likely to be the poorest of society? From what I read, this is not the case.
- ramason 11y agoIt happens all the time. Causes lead to different outcomes in different environments. In biology for example poor diets lead to different diseases in different parts of the world. Extremists are more likely to be poor. Some instigators may be well-off people doing it for whatever purposes, but your rank and file, your average suicide bomber is more likely to be idle, unemployed with nothing better to do