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Interesting BBC report on the psychology of suicide bombing
Has anybody heard The World Today? On 9825 at 0200 they had a report on
the psychology of suicide bombing. Basically, the expert said that the bombers are disaffected young people fed up with the current social and religious constructs under which they live, and subsceptible to utopian dreams. When the promise of 72 virgins in Paradise for eternity is compared to what they see around them on the earthly plane, Paradise starts looking pretty damn good. They also mentioned that in Iraq different factions of Muslims are going into the mosques of the opposing faction and blowing themselves up. What all this adds up to is that no place is safe, and everybody between the ages of 13 and 25 is a potential terrorist. It's the same impulse that gave birth to the 60s counterculture, only much more damaging. What we're talking about is a threat not only to Western Civilization but to the basic building blocks upon which human interaction is built. If every teenager in the world decides that suicide bombing is better than earthly living, and the goal is simply to kill as many people as possible wherever and whenever they may be found, then the human race is probably doomed. We each go out into the world trusting that the people around us are not out to blow us up. Imagine if children start killing their parents, if bombs go off on school buses, if life becomes one long litany of death and destruction that can come from anybody, anywhere, anytime. Human society would tear itself apart trying to secure itself or trying to grab the scraps of existence before they too are blown up. The killing would continue until it ran out of people to kill, like a virulent virus that doesn't die until it has exhausted its host population. By the time the virus of suicide bombing ran out of participants, humanity would be no more. There has been lots of talk on this newsgroup about the threat we face, and the costs of losing. Well, here it is: we face the threat of having the building blocks of human existence come unraveled, and the result would be that the human race would cease to exist. We still don't know if there are other sentient species on other planets, and we may never find out. If humanity is truly alone, then its extinction would be the greatest loss that the universe has known in 20 billion years. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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