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Originally Posted by Flabbibulin
Sorry, but this almost Chamberlain type thinking is just wrong. Lunatics don't go away if you ignore them.
A group of degenerates continue to kill innocent civilians in the name of some BS religion, and you think we should train ourselves to simply ignore them, hoping that the idiots are motivated mostly by the publicity?
And yes, while the public (those living in areas of the world not experiencing these attacks anyway) becoming desensitized is likely unavoidable, it is not a silver lining; it is a bloody sad state of affairs.
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Killing innocents in the name of a cause to ilicit a reaction from a populace has been going on for millenia. We haven't solved it yet unless you think you have it solved. It's an awful state of affairs for sure, but the silver lining of it is that it has made their attacks less impactful.
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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
This is an Islamic problem, Islam has to find a way of totally removing the the ideaoligy that causes these acts, start by banning the perverted and hideous sharia law, respecting woman's rights and separating religion from law period.
In the 15th century Christians would say "God said it, so I'll do it" when doing a despicable act like burning a witch,killing a gay or slaughtering masses of non Christians, threw time they weeded out most of the bad ideas and civil laws weeded out the rest.
Islam needs to modernize and catch up before the bigotry stops.
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I agree wholeheartedly. In fact, I'd take it a step further and say that Islam is an awful religion in general, but I don't have much positive to say about any of them.
But banning immigration, isolating 1.5 billion people, and killing hundreds of thousands of them in collateral damage isn't going to help. It makes it worse.
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Originally Posted by Zulu29
Just so much wrong with this post. Let me get this straight. People conduct terror attacks, kill, maim and wound innocent citizens and you propose the public sits on their hands and says awe shucks hopefully it doesn't happen again?
I'm very curious to hear your "thoughtful" response to this.
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Nobody said "Do Nothing". We
are doing lots of things and it's helping. What more is there? Bomb innocent Syrian human shields in an attempt to scare these people? Turn away the vulnerable looking for help? Ban religions? None of those would do anything more than exacerbate the problem. You cannot scare people away from these crimes when they're willing to die to accomplish them.
There will be more we do, but it'll help incrementally. You cannot be totally safe, this was always true and continues to be so. We used to feel like you could, but the current scourge of terrorism has only lifted the veil to what was
always there. Call that fatalism or pessimism, fine. But real solutions will take time. Rash military campaigns have very literally caused this problem, they will not solve it