What makes a terrorist?

[Miss Kitty]

6th...please respond to John R. Sometimes I think you were the victim of a bully.

 

[6thGen]

6thgen, many(most?) disagree with you on various levels, and have gotten testy, and argued with you, myself included, but i gave it up awhile ago, too pointless. but, i don't think you've been attacked directly(if i'm wrong, please cite examples). you on the other hand are quick with the attacks and namecalling. a defense mechanism, i believe.

my take.

Kitty, for crying out loud, I don't spend every waking minute here.

Off the top of my head, I've been called uneducated, reprehensible, ignorant, cruel, an a**hole, a jackass, a troll (my personal favorite) and countless other things. I typically respond in kind, so you have me there. When someone talks down to me after I've posted a well cited and well researched article, with a plethora of scientific evidence, offering nothing to refute it other than the fact that it clashes with their opinion, they are, in my mind, being a belligerent jackass, standing athwart documented facts yelling "Wrong". If someone told me I was an idiot for believing that 2+2 equals seven, I'd say they were being a belligerent jackass.

I'm wearing my big boy pants, and I've never complained to the moderator or the board when someone calls me a name, other than arguing the accusation on the merits. If the owner of the site wants to restrict the way people on his site address one another, that is his privilege, and if he wants to ban me that too is his privilege.

 

[John R]

Kitty, for crying out loud, I don't spend every waking minute here.

Off the top of my head, I've been called uneducated, reprehensible, ignorant, cruel, an a**hole, a jackass, a troll (my personal favorite) and countless other things. I typically respond in kind, so you have me there. When someone talks down to me after I've posted a well cited and well researched article, with a plethora of scientific evidence, offering nothing to refute it other than the fact that it clashes with their opinion, they are, in my mind, being a belligerent jackass, standing athwart documented facts yelling "Wrong". If someone told me I was an idiot for believing that 2+2 equals seven, I'd say they were being a belligerent jackass.

I'm wearing my big boy pants, and I've never complained to the moderator or the board when someone calls me a name, other than arguing the accusation on the merits. If the owner of the site wants to restrict the way people on his site address one another, that is his privilege, and if he wants to ban me that too is his privilege.

point taken. i know it is a blow to you to be called 'uneducated';-) and i know you and timmy have had long standing opposing views, but the post above kind of backs up my point. calling him a jackass because he taunts you, is beneath your education level, imo. you can do better than that...

 

[6thGen]

point taken. i know it is a blow to you to be called 'uneducated';-) and i know you and timmy have had long standing opposing views, but the post above kind of backs up my point. calling him a jackass because he taunts you, is beneath your education level, imo. you can do better than that...

Fair enough. Point taken.

 

[Miss Kitty]

...high road! 6th...I am sorry you can't spend more time with us, but maybe if you spent some time in the Lounge, it might help your stress level. I have the feeling you possess a funny bone.

 

[Uncle Timmy]

It's not an opinion, you belligerent jackass, and you have done absolutely nothing to disprove it. Disagreeing with the facts presented in the paper is like disagreeing that London is in England.

On the contrary, the entire premise of your ?well cited and researched? article has been disproven by the Falun Gong and Timothy McVeigh examples.

Therefore the article is not worthy of basing opinions on. A lesson, apparently, you are slow to absorb.

Oh and 6th ?lighten up. You continually display an emotional defensiveness when your opinions are challenged. A rational individual is always prepared to re-examine and even change their opinions in the face of factual challenges.

A little less emotion driven politics, and more reasoned viewpoints would be a far more impressive than your usual adrenaline fueled rants.

 

[6thGen]

On the contrary, the entire premise of your ?well cited and researched? article has been disproven by the Falun Gong and Timothy McVeigh examples.

Therefore the article is not worthy of basing opinions on. A lesson, apparently, you are slow to absorb.

Oh and 6th ?lighten up. You continually display an emotional defensiveness when your opinions are challenged. A rational individual is always prepared to re-examine and even change their opinions in the face of factual challenges.

A little less emotion driven politics, and more reasoned viewpoints would be a far more impressive than your usual adrenaline fueled rants.

The article did not, nor did it claim to show perfect correlation. Your examples disprove the article as much as citing the $10.5 million dollar home sale to disprove the fact that the nationwide coastal residential market is still in the toilet.

 

[BeachSiO2]

Is it possible that there is no one size fits all answer to this question? ?t would appear to me that there could be a variety of reasons one would become a terrorist, especially with cultural differences, religious differences, socioeconomic differences, etc. The list goes on and on.

Not to mention, the Chris Rock reason, "Some people are just plain crazy."

 

[6thGen]

Is it possible that there is no one size fits all answer to this question? ?t would appear to me that there could be a variety of reasons one would become a terrorist, especially with cultural differences, religious differences, socioeconomic differences, etc. The list goes on and on.

Not to mention, the Chris Rock reason, "Some people are just plain crazy."

Absolutely, I'm just trying to follow others' examples of understanding why.

 

[BeachSiO2]

Absolutely, I'm just trying to follow others' examples of understanding why.

Gotcha and trying to understand why is important, but that's why I always find it scary when "we" try to fix some problems based on our biases (cultural, social, religious, economic, etc.). The old adage walk a mile in their shoes comes to mind, and in some cases we can't. This is not only foreign, but also domestic.