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I suppose I was being pedantic, but giving up smoking, and changing other things, such as how we eat, is treated as changing what we do, rather than changing how we think, as though what we do is something external to ourselves, rather than, as you say, just a manifestation of how we think.
Having identity "I am a smoker", but deciding, "I will stop myself smoking", seems to set up a constant battle with oneself. Deciding, "I am not a smoker" and adopting that identity, then makes smoking irrelevant and stopping isn't a problem as one simply isn't a smoker.
The Iranian identity "I am an Islamic Jihadist and am going to do in the infidels" is the problem, rather than the noocular bombs. Bombs are just the worst enabler currently available to them.
Persuading them that they aren't Islamic Jihadists is probably better than simply blowing up their noocular bomb facilities. Though, as with Japan and Germany, blowing them up helps them change their thinking when they experience what bad ideas their previous concepts were.
Unfortunately, it seems that Islamic Jihad wants to pretend that they can do a better job than the Nazis. I expect that it will become essential to stop them before they invade Poland, annex Austria and start murdering those they dislike. They have long ago started the murdering. Beslan was an example of the complete horror of their ideas. They are probably not open to persuasion.
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