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SvennoJ on 08 August 2025
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Hardstuck-Platinum 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. 

This is a truly awful and dangerous thing to say. It's only a small chance for us because we live in the west under a relatively strict rule of law. What about the people in Africa and the middle east though? Enourmous amounts of terrorism and violence. Would you really go around there telling them that terrorism isn't too much of an issue cos your more likely to die in other ways?

7,555 terrorism related deaths world wide in 3,492 terrorism related attacks.

Did you know domestic violence kills 10 times as many...
https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/press-release/2024/11/one-woman-or-girl-is-killed-every-10-minutes-by-their-intimate-partner-or-family-member

Terrorism is a problem, but it's also a symptom. 
https://www.visionofhumanity.org/maps/global-terrorism-index/#/

Burkina Faso tops the list for terrorism
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2025/country-chapters/burkina-faso
It's also no wonder why...

And it seems they're working on the solution, improving quality of life for everyone


What surprised me most was the other side of the story. Modern construction projects, newly paved roads, and rising neighborhoods show a country moving forward. Despite ongoing instability, there is visible progress. A new Burkina Faso is emerging, grounded in national pride, regional cooperation, and long-term development.


Now if you include state terrorism (for example Israel and the IDF) then no, I would not go around telling people it's not too much of an issue. But I suppose we're talking about non state actors here. Who are also fueled by state terrorism.