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Powerclown, please reread the quote you chose from my above post. I wrote: "Now we need to figure out what would make them stop." That quote goes beyond simply asking wehy someone does something. It moves onto the next tsep: learning how to control that behavior.
If we could figure out how to make people stop rape, then we could make people stop raping. If we could figure out how to make people stop comitting murder, then we could make people stop comitting murder. Do you understand?
I agree that it's not enough to learn why people do the bad things they do. You need to figure out what it would take to make them stop.
The romans had philosophy, but not formal psychology. Let me say this: I believe that no human behavior is completly irrational. War, which gave birth to terrorism, is not the solution to terrorism. I have found that in any situation in which two parties are posturing, mutuality is the first step towards a solution. Neither one of us, terrorists or imperial militaries, wants to be fighting. We should start from there.
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