Two guys getting beheaded is a mass raping?
I was referring to these low volume cases.
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Two guys getting beheaded is a mass raping?
I was referring to these low volume cases.
Is it rape when it comes with an expensive ring, a modest house and a university tuition to the closest university for wife and child? Not that any women in the west would do anything like that is it clashed with our usual high moral standards.
The inconvenient truth about terrorism:
The discrepancy between the panic generated by terrorism and the deaths generated by terrorism is no accident. Panic is the whole point of terrorism, as the root of the word makes clear: "Terror" refers to a psychological state, not an enemy or an event. The effects of terrorism depend completely on the psychology of the audience. Terrorists are communicators, seeking publicity and attention, which they manufacture through fear. They may want to extort a government into capitulating to a demand, to sap people's confidence in their government's ability to protect them, or to provoke repression that will turn people against their government or bring about chaos in which the terrorist faction hopes to prevail.
But the psychological payoff of terrorism is limited, and ultimately self-defeating. It's a seldom-appreciated fact, documented by the political scientists Max Abrahms, Audrey Cronin, and others, that terrorism was far more prevalent before our so-called age of terror than during it, and that all terrorist movements die. Remember the Baader-Meinhof Gang, the Front de Libération du Québec, the Symbionese Liberation Army? The 1960s and 1970s saw hundreds of bombings, hijackings, and shootings by various armies, leagues, coalitions, brigades, factions, undergrounds, and fronts. Where are they now? Over the years, terrorist groups collapse as their leaders are killed or captured, as they morph into political movements, or as they fizzle out through internal squabbling and the defection of young firebrands to the pleasures of civilian life.
An Era in Ideas: Terrorism - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Now where's that ladder.
The discrepancy between the panic generated by terrorism and the deaths generated by terrorism is no accident. Panic is the whole point of terrorism, as the root of the word makes clear: "Terror" refers to a psychological state, not an enemy or an event. The effects of terrorism depend completely on the psychology of the audience. Terrorists are communicators, seeking publicity and attention, which they manufacture through fear. They may want to extort a government into capitulating to a demand, to sap people's confidence in their government's ability to protect them, or to provoke repression that will turn people against their government or bring about chaos in which the terrorist faction hopes to prevail.
But the psychological payoff of terrorism is limited, and ultimately self-defeating. It's a seldom-appreciated fact, documented by the political scientists Max Abrahms, Audrey Cronin, and others, that terrorism was far more prevalent before our so-called age of terror than during it, and that all terrorist movements die. Remember the Baader-Meinhof Gang, the Front de Libération du Québec, the Symbionese Liberation Army? The 1960s and 1970s saw hundreds of bombings, hijackings, and shootings by various armies, leagues, coalitions, brigades, factions, undergrounds, and fronts. Where are they now? Over the years, terrorist groups collapse as their leaders are killed or captured, as they morph into political movements, or as they fizzle out through internal squabbling and the defection of young firebrands to the pleasures of civilian life.
An Era in Ideas: Terrorism - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Now where's that ladder.
Low volume cases? How many beheadings does it take to qualify as barbaric and distasteful in your book?
Don't give in to sensationalism.
These things are 'barbaric and distasteful' but no more so than our Canadian teeny superhero who decided to chop of a foreign student into itty bits.
These things are 'barbaric and distasteful' but no more so than our Canadian teeny superhero who decided to chop of a foreign student into itty bits.
Soon as that option makes it to the table, it also apples to both sides. How about loss of breathing be uses just so things like intentional starvation and such is included as 'methods of influence'. If we get all uppity over heads being severed and dismiss all accountability when we hit a room full of civilians then we really have become what we fear, random terror.
How about all senless death be given the same exposure, some is buried as it is and you want to bury more as being the only proper solution. Obviously your neighborhood has not experienced a disaster via terror or ant other kind that nature can provide. If it did you would want the solution to be fast in coming and it be void of a disaster being made much bigger. If that is the solution for your block then it should be the solution you promote as the cure in other places.
That's not the way it seems to be around here for the most part. We can do whatecer we want over there and no blowback should be expected if we are only making matters worse intentionally.
You need to put a hell of a lot more thought into how you express yourself. Using a "yawn" to represent your reaction to two human beings in dire circumstances tends to vastly understate how "barbaric and distasteful" you claim to find it. If you don't want to give in to sensationalism, then don't give in to sensationalism. There's no need to use such condescending mockery over the imminent death of two people. A yawn indicates boredom, being tired. The implication here being that the reports of two people about to be killed in a horrific fashion is something you find boring and tiresome.
It is no more barbaric and distasteful, you're right about that. But perhaps referring to sick and twisted murderer the likes of Luke Magnotta as a "Canadian teeny superhero" tends to sensationalize the matter, no? Or at the very least, trivializes it.
Actually, I think the media handled this story pretty well for once.
There was clear communication from the Japanese government and they didn't give into the terrorists' demands.
We knew that there was absolutely no way they could find these guys, so it was pretty obvious from the start where this was going.
Thankfully, everyone kept their cool and the government exhausted all the reasonable options.
There was clear communication from the Japanese government and they didn't give into the terrorists' demands.
We knew that there was absolutely no way they could find these guys, so it was pretty obvious from the start where this was going.
Thankfully, everyone kept their cool and the government exhausted all the reasonable options.
