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Originally Posted by Ustwo
The motivation for evil is irrelivant.
Islmofacists will murder innocents as their very philosophy makes no room for innocents, and if the motivation for Egypts attacks are due to local politics, while Britians are due to its forigen policy, it makes no difference.
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Consider that very few individuals are motivated by a desire to do "evil". Heck, even Hitler thought he was doing a great thing.
Every "terrorist" thinks he/she is doing something "good", be it purifying their holy land, to fighting the jews.
So I think it is very relevant asking what their motivation is. We might even find that we can sympathize with some of it (even if we disagree with how they express it.)
Consider a scenario where a young palestinian man cannot get work because of an Israeli lock down on his town, which goes on for not just weeks or months, but years. This on top of the hatred spewed by the local Imam might be enough to convince him that it would be "good" to blow up an Isreali bus to help get the Jews out of their town so that his friends and their families can get jobs.
(Please note that this comes from a person who is a strong supporter of Israel.)
In my scenario, I use an example of an economic injustice that could be fixed thus reducing the number of terrorist recruits, but I could have used political injustice, social injustice, etc.
Then, there are those individuals who have been taught and truely believe that the west is just evil and that any westerner in Muslim lands needs to be killed.
So my preferred strategy is to understand those reasons that they want to kill us and to try and change the ones that can reasonably be changed. As for those who would kill us for unreasonable reasons, I would kill them without mercy or hesitation.