saltmummy wrote:Taipion wrote:Have not heard of this in the news yet.
I always wonder what they actually gain from this though.
The only thing that terrorism does, seems to be:
- make people hate the group responsible, their ethnic, their religion and so on
- raise international support against the responsible group
- changes public opinion, allows for harsher laws
Did I miss something?
Does terrorism actually pay out for the respective group responsible?
Does it work as advertisement for them, raising cash and people for them?
In the case of religiously motivated attacks such as this, fanaticism is it's own reward. They've been convinced that if they do it, god will love them more/reward them when they are dead. There is no payoff other than the pleasure of having caused as much pain as possible in the name of ones deity of choice. It's in the name though isn't it? "terrorism." A bit like "terrorize," which is what I always thought the point was. To maim, kill, and scare the living **** out of as many people as you can.
Yes, that is obvious, but terrorism is a business, like any other, if you just send all your "employees" to go blast themself away, then you have spent all your human assets, and most of your material,
they don't grow on trees, neither does the cash/arms, do they?
I can see how some seek revenge this way for many things, like losing friends/relatives in a war, or things "done to their country" or other things they perceive as painful,
yet, all that needs to be funded, and it does not pay itself, does it?
Many foremost simple and poor people simply fall for the religious, misinterpreted stories they are told and taught, but again that "education" also needs to be funded in some way.
So, to be a continuous, self supporting business, terrorism needs to gain something from what it does,
how does it work?
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I wonder why I can't recall having read something about how it works, I mean,
if you want to fight something, stop something, then the very first thing you need to know, is how it works,
so you can make it stop working.
Like ... fire, separate fuel from oxygen or lower the heat, and it stops, simple, understand it to know how to stop it.