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timmah on 12 December 2012
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Soleron said:
timmah said:
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I don't agree with every measure that is taken to prevent terrorism, but to just say we should allow terrorist attacks to happen is beyond foolish. If there were no preventative measures, the number of innocent lives lost to terrorist attacks would be massive. Based on your arguments so far, I'm guessing you're young and have no clue about the abject evil that exists in this world, and I'm wasting my time talking to you. I just can't even wrap my head around the thinking required to arrive at statements like that.

EDIT: Also, I live in the United States and have friends from NYC that lost loved ones in the twin towers. Your statement about terrorism ticks me off and makes me want to say things to you that would get me banned from this site, so I'll refrain. I think your naivete speaks for itself.

Well the point of terrorism is to provoke a reaction - terror. So if we just ignored it I don't think it would happen. It wouldn't happen more than it currently does anyway - which is almost never (in the West). Unfortunately no government will try it out.

See, you're making it personal. "loved ones" etc. Emotion like that is worse than useless in a political debate.

Acts of terrorism as we're talking about here are done by evil people who want to kill anybody who doesn't agree with their worldview, they even kill other muslims who aren't as extreme as them or have a different Islamic doctrine! Their goal is not to scare people for fun, but to either force others to conform to their extreme brand of Islam or kill you if you refuse. Ignoring them won't make them go away, just like ignoring Adolf Hitler (or any other militant force of evil) does not make them go away, but only makes them stronger as history has shown time and time again. Keep in mind, normal Muslims aren't the problem, it's the radical, militant ones I'm talking about.

Also, the emotional statement there was not a political argument, it was the reason I was a little ticked off at that moment.