Terrorists aren't psychopaths. They're idealists with a strong but horribly warped sense of morality. Very differenthttps://twitter.com/YS/status/877473958089695233 …
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Surely that's a blanket statement? More likely to be overlapping Venn diagrams.
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Replying to @Mal2782
No. They can join terrorist organisations for profit & power. They can't be fanatical idealists willing to die for a greater good
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Replying to @HPluckrose @Mal2782
The psychology of psychopathy & the psychology of ideological fundamentalism are mutually exclusive.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Not sure it's that simple. ://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/spycatcher/201502/psychopathy-and-mass-movements
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Replying to @Mal2782
That can be true as well as the psychology of psychopathy & of fundamentalism being mutually exclusive.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
You're being absolutist. The "profit" could be the afterlife and all the promises associated.
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Replying to @Mal2782
In theory but in practice, not really. They don't tend to think that way.
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This is quite good on it. http://infosect.freeshell.org/infocult/The_Psychology_of_Fundamentalism-Gerald_Wiviott.pdf … I can't really be bothered to argue about it much tho. Complicated & work to do.
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