CarlPierce wrote:Professor Duff’s team had concerned themselves fundamentally with a statistical analysis of the problem as a whole, in tandem with and related to a psychochemical and behavioural analysis of over a thousand individual radical muslims:

“And we came to the inevitable conclusion that the one course of action the authorities must take is… To cut off their goolies. Cut their goolies off!”

aufbahrung wrote:History shows people are more prone to extremes than moderate behaviour.

aufbahrung wrote:History shows people are more prone to extremes than moderate behaviour.

Given enough time any crowd can go mad, chess players go mad all the time.

The question remains what to do when a third of the worlds population is on a mad world conquest binge and a third in denial that it's really happening?

Rumraket wrote:
The african american population in the US has seen unbelievable historical injustices, and yet they generally don't have a terrorist problem. It would be silly to deny that islam is a factor that explains some of the attributes of islamic terrorist organizations. It should be possible for rational individuals to recognize this, and state as much, and yet also understand that it isn't the sole or only contributing cause of terrorism.

aufbahrung wrote:History shows people are more prone to extremes than moderate behaviour. Given enough time any crowd can go mad, chess players go mad all the time. The question remains what to do when a third of the worlds population is on a mad world conquest binge and a third in denial that it's really happening?

aufbahrung wrote:History shows people are more prone to extremes than moderate behaviour. Given enough time any crowd can go mad, chess players go mad all the time. The question remains what to do when a third of the worlds population is on a mad world conquest binge and a third in denial that it's really happening?

aufbahrung wrote:The question remains what to do when a third of the worlds population is on a mad world conquest binge and a third in denial that it's really happening?

GrahamH wrote:

Rumraket wrote:
The african american population in the US has seen unbelievable historical injustices, and yet they generally don't have a terrorist problem. It would be silly to deny that islam is a factor that explains some of the attributes of islamic terrorist organizations. It should be possible for rational individuals to recognize this, and state as much, and yet also understand that it isn't the sole or only contributing cause of terrorism.

An interesting point. In South Africa it took violent action to bring about change. They "had a terrorist problem".

Rumraket wrote:But it's not always that simple.

aufbahrung wrote:In a war situation that involved a terror nation perhaps internment of suspects or known knowns for the duration of the war might be the lesser evil. All rotten eggs in one basket?

aufbahrung wrote:In a war situation that involved a terror nation perhaps internment of suspects or known knowns for the duration of the war might be the lesser evil. All rotten eggs in one basket?

Rumraket wrote:

aufbahrung wrote:In a war situation that involved a terror nation perhaps internment of suspects or known knowns for the duration of the war might be the lesser evil. All rotten eggs in one basket?

Perhaps not. Perhaps throwing people in jail without a crime being committed, and that being proved in a court of law, other people might find that they don't trust the system, and become motivated to fight it too?

NineBerry wrote:"Cured bacon"? Is there any other kind?

Spearthrower wrote:The forum expert on how to tyrannically imprison parts of your populace along ethno-religious lines in hypothetical wars.

You should put this expertise on your C.V.

aufbahrung wrote:The trouble with Northern Ireland is internment wasn't done as it should. If people are shipped out to a internment facility it should remain a black box not a propoganda coup for the enemy like camp Xray or the H-blocks. Far enough away that only rumours of the cruelty reach the enemy, enough to generate fear and not enough to generate anger, a balance between good cop and bad cop in the situation if you want.