3 ms·
I would imagine groups like ISIS are numbered by such men.
by s_dev 6y ago
I would imagine groups like ISIS are numbered by such men.
- bilbo0s 6y agoI believe HN User "motogpjimbo"'s point was that it's very likely that groups like ISIS are started by high status men. And now that he got me to contemplate the matter, I think he may be correct. I think it is the high status men and women who generally start the wars, and the low status people who are forced to fight the wars. I think this is how things generally work.
- motogpjimbo 6y agoSure, but probably not led, funded or conceptualised by them. Anyone who is able to accumulate enough power to start a war wouldn't normally be considered a low status male.
- FooBarBizBazz 6y agoInterviews with ISIS fighters struck me strongly with that impression. One man in particular -- in Europe he had been a nobody, but in the Islamic State he had status... and his experience was that this status was absolutely worth killing for.