Are there any currently functioning groups who are so unconcerned with human life that they don't mind dying, as long as the people who they want dead end up that way?
Do those groups have anything in common?
Ignoring commonalities is poor policing at best, and an unwillingness to confront a problem head-on makes it all the more likely that the problem will not be solved.
Yes, that cop was impolitic, and that doesn't do anyone any favors. However, to dissect your counterexample a bit further, was Kaczynski willing to be a suicide bomber? Were McVeigh and Nichols suicide bombers? I would contend that different tactics will succeed against those three than would succeed against those people who are more concerned with killing others than their own survival.
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Date: 2006-08-14 02:39 pm (UTC)Are there any currently functioning groups who are so unconcerned with human life that they don't mind dying, as long as the people who they want dead end up that way?
Do those groups have anything in common?
Ignoring commonalities is poor policing at best, and an unwillingness to confront a problem head-on makes it all the more likely that the problem will not be solved.
Yes, that cop was impolitic, and that doesn't do anyone any favors. However, to dissect your counterexample a bit further, was Kaczynski willing to be a suicide bomber? Were McVeigh and Nichols suicide bombers? I would contend that different tactics will succeed against those three than would succeed against those people who are more concerned with killing others than their own survival.