.@SamHarrisOrg @RyanPhillips_3 If simply poverty & US interventionism was enough to explain religious radicalization, what about Latin Amer?
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@LaloDagach@SamHarrisOrg@RyanPhillips_3 oh, there's a vital ingredient missing there. It starts with I and ends in slam. - 1 more reply
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The issue is the method used to discern what is reasonably, real or true. Teach method.pic.twitter.com/bjggvSQVMv
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A simple question: what have the most terrorists today in common? Race, education, wealth, country, language? Or religion?
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I'd say literacy also inverse factor.more likely a muslim reads the quran or hadith,greater the likelihood of terrorist belief
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Most terrorists across a wide range of groups are neither poor, drug addicts nor do they suffer from mental disease or defect.
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I half agree. I would have to say that if anything IS mental illness, it’s killing people in the name of religion.
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if the creator of the universe wants you to kill or burn in hell, not doing it is a mental illness.
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Excellent point.
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I mean many terrorists are poor, and extreme poverty (joined with many other factors) can lead to extremism.
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@RyanPhillips_3@SamHarrisOrg But not all... Radicalizing isn't mutually exclusive to income, wealth, or education. -
didn't say "all".
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@RyanPhillips_3@SamHarrisOrg Agreed - Just wanted to clarify.
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@RyanPhillips_3 I see it as an existential angst crisis as traditional/religious cultures collide with secular modern ones. -
this is a good point. Ontological uncertainty could be an issue with extremists.
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I even have a pet hypothesis that conservative Muslims feel less alienated in religious USA vs. secular Europe
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@RyanPhillips_3 if that were so, wouldn't Haiti be a place rampant with terrorism? -
"contributing factor" is key here. Notice I didn't say poverty causes terrorism.
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while I think it may sometimes be a contributing factor, I don't think it's always a factor that's prevalent.
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