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Education + Decrease in Wealth Inequality + Better Mental Health Care is an answer. Everyone likes to paint bad guys as monsters, but they all started as littl

by brador 10y ago

Education + Decrease in Wealth Inequality + Better Mental Health Care is an answer. Everyone likes to paint bad guys as monsters, but they all started as little baby human beings just like the rest of us. Then something went wrong. Lets fix those things that go wrong piece by piece and make this world a better place for everyone.

kyriakos 10y ago
You are right but you are talking about world-wide education and decrease in inequality - is that even feasible? And say it is, we're talking about a project that will take a century to see fruition so what happens until then?
- brador 10y ago
  Feasible tomorrow? no. Feasible in 100 or even 10 years? yes absolutely. It is a question of priorities and resources.
vixen99 10y ago
I am not convinced that your (possible) answer is compatible with "We are at war and I am a soldier - now you too will taste the reality of this situation." - Mohammad Sidique Khan (7/7 Bomber)? Apparently he was "a quiet, studious boy who was never in trouble but was sometimes bullied. Friends from his teenage years recall a highly Westernised young man who insisted on being called "Sid". After school, he worked in low-level government clerical jobs before leaving to study for a degree in business studies at Leeds Metropolitan University. " Sadly your and my 'fix' is unlikely to be a fix for everybody. The 'fix solution' makes a very large assumption about shared values across the world.
- brador 10y ago
  Every group has crazies and outliers, we can minimze their damage but they will always exist. Just because he made a statement doesn't mean it applies to anyone more than him. From his description it is likely he was suffering from depression. He found a hook and tried to get out of the spiral by joining something he felt gave his life meaning and friendship. Just like someone joining AA, just like someone joining a local church or synagogue group. Sometimes people are desperate to just be with and around other people and they'll take what they can get. With better mental health resources he would hopefully have been helped before he got to that state. Remember, no monsters, just people.
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bassman9000 10y ago
These terrorists tend to be well educated, with degrees in some cases, and have good understanding of the scriptures. Is not an education issue. Nor it's a wealth issue. Attacks happen all over the world, rich or poor. These guys are not desperate because they lack money. Nor they are, in most cases, insane (although we tend to think so). It's an indoctrination issue. They've been told who the enemy was, since they were little. They were told liberal values are despicable, the end of "society". And they've been told any means necessary to end with these values is valid. You need to end the indoctrination, right from where it starts: the neighborhood mosque.

by brador 10y ago

kyriakos 10y ago

You are right but you are talking about world-wide education and decrease in inequality - is that even feasible? And say it is, we're talking about a project that will take a century to see fruition so what happens until then?

brador 10y ago
Feasible tomorrow? no. Feasible in 100 or even 10 years? yes absolutely. It is a question of priorities and resources.

vixen99 10y ago

I am not convinced that your (possible) answer is compatible with "We are at war and I am a soldier - now you too will taste the reality of this situation." - Mohammad Sidique Khan (7/7 Bomber)? Apparently he was "a quiet, studious boy who was never in trouble but was sometimes bullied. Friends from his teenage years recall a highly Westernised young man who insisted on being called "Sid". After school, he worked in low-level government clerical jobs before leaving to study for a degree in business studies at Leeds Metropolitan University. " Sadly your and my 'fix' is unlikely to be a fix for everybody. The 'fix solution' makes a very large assumption about shared values across the world.

brador 10y ago
Every group has crazies and outliers, we can minimze their damage but they will always exist. Just because he made a statement doesn't mean it applies to anyone more than him. From his description it is likely he was suffering from depression. He found a hook and tried to get out of the spiral by joining something he felt gave his life meaning and friendship. Just like someone joining AA, just like someone joining a local church or synagogue group. Sometimes people are desperate to just be with and around other people and they'll take what they can get. With better mental health resources he would hopefully have been helped before he got to that state. Remember, no monsters, just people.
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bassman9000 10y ago

These terrorists tend to be well educated, with degrees in some cases, and have good understanding of the scriptures. Is not an education issue. Nor it's a wealth issue. Attacks happen all over the world, rich or poor. These guys are not desperate because they lack money. Nor they are, in most cases, insane (although we tend to think so). It's an indoctrination issue. They've been told who the enemy was, since they were little. They were told liberal values are despicable, the end of "society". And they've been told any means necessary to end with these values is valid. You need to end the indoctrination, right from where it starts: the neighborhood mosque.