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SvennoJ on 08 August 2025
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shavenferret said:
SvennoJ said:

To solve terrorism, solve the root cause of terrorism. Inequality, oppression and injustice are the main 3 causes. Which can be solved if instead of spending more money on ways to control and oppress populations, we use them to solve poverty and starvation.

As long as we're only fighting the symptoms while continuing to stoke up the causes, terrorism will stick around no matter what.

And as long as governments (and people in general) value money over life, the solution will never come and terrorism will continue to be used as a convenient excuse to take away more of our freedom and bomb more innocent people in the name of the war on terror.

Collateral damage is such a neat term to put money over lives. Most blatant recent example is US bombing Yemen in the name of freedom of navigation. Shipping costs up a few percent, time to kill some people.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/18/trump-yemen-bombings-killed-civilians-us-attacks-analysis

Actually the biggest cause is greed from which all the other causes arise. How do you 'solve' a basic human emotion... Greed comes out of insecurity, fear, and dissatisfaction.

So we're in a self reinforcing cycle:

Greed leads to inequality, oppression and injustice.
Inequality, oppression and injustice lead to envy and terrorism.
Terrorism leads to feeling insecurity and fear.
Insecurity, fear, dissatisfaction and envy lead to more greed. 

One way to break the cycle is to stop the hysteria about terrorism. The chance of getting 'hit' by terrorism is miniscule to dying in a car accident. 7,555 terrorism related deaths in 2024, 1.19 million traffic deaths annually. 

Ignore the problem and it will go away

Read the rest, ignoring the root causes will fuel terrorism indefinitely.

However the problem is made out to be much worse than it actually is, which reinforces the cycle. Both giving reasons for terrorists to keep acting out (it gets the media's attention) and for people to be fine with their freedom/privacy getting taken further away.

There's a reason suicides are not reported on, the Werther effect. Doesn't mean the problem is ignored. 

Fact is, people just love chaos, drama, spectacle, outrage, which a terrorist attack all provide. And terrorists do it for the attention it garners.