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This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how human psychology works. Mocking and marginalizing a group makes them more likely to engage in extremist acts, not
by nazgulnarsil 14y ago
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how human psychology works. Mocking and marginalizing a group makes them more likely to engage in extremist acts, not less.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/lr/evaporative_cooling_of_group_beliefs/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/lr/evaporative_cooling_of_group_beli...
- andrewflnr 14y agoThe point is, if you make them look stupid to the broader population, people are less likely to come in. It's about recruitment, not mitigation of existing terrorists, at least how I understood it.
- gliese1337 14y agoRight. So the question to ask, then, is: will the potential shorter-term increase in attacks from trolled terrorists be more or less than the longer-term decrease in attacks due to fewer new terrorists being around? If it were Americans (or anyone else who worries about being a terrorist target already) doing the trolling, I would seriously worry about that. But if it's local people discouraging each other, I figure the risk is pretty small.
- msellout 14y agoStetson Kennedy's ridicule of the KKK was able to reduce membership. It's been effective in the past.
- nazgulnarsil 14y agoread the link.