Have you ever found yourself ignoring warnings about something after you have heard it an infinite amount of times? I’ve noticed people have a habit of ignoring fire alarms, likely because they have heard so many in their lives without any real fires that the …
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Is the goal of a terrorist to create terror?
So if we cooperate with that effort, and take every possible measure to create irrational terror in the population, without any specific recourse, or source, have we helped the terrorists succeed?
Who succeeds when we succeed in spreading terror? Those who make and sell weaponry, fuel, instruments of war. Primarily American companies close to the current administration.
Other than 911, who had perpetrated the killing, perpetuated the struggle, caused the most deaths, and created the most terror?
An answer, regardless of the politics and who we believe are the perpetrators, the creators and marketers of terror, is to ‘be not afraid’.
Let us not allow ourselves to be literally governed by fear. There are another set of principles that our country supposedly stands for. “Attack people you are afraid of” is not listed anywhere, on anyone’s list of high moral or ethical standards.
The psychological angle is the psychology of controlling victims through the use of fear. Making people feel as though they are trapped and that violent, irrational acts are their only choices.
We are not in that situation. That level of terror is not warranted. We should refuse, as a country and as a people to be controlled in that manner.
How many terrorists are there in this world? There are not that many. They are not a threat.
The countless adults abusing/neglecting children do more daily harm and threaten more to society’s future than a handful of attention-seeking fanatics blowing up stuff occasionally. That’s how I view it.
Reminds me of the classic fable, The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Interesting research.