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To: bentway who wrote (282923)	11/15/2015 9:43:01 PM
From: epicure	of 541635

We can only try to give people enough meaning to their lives that they don't want to blow themselves up for a "cause". And we have to accept that won't happen overnight. We can't keep young men from getting weapons and killing each other in the US, where they have it pretty good. So I'm not sure why we think we'd be able to prevent this sort of thing totally. We won't. We must accept that sometimes terrorists will kill people, and we must find ways to gently change the future that don't make more terrorists, which make people more interested in living than in killing. There are plenty of ways to do that. Demonizing the Muslim religion won't be particularly helpful, though. As you know, I don't like any religions- but telling people how you really feel just makes them hate you :-) I've pissed plenty of sincere xtians off on SI. I didn't give a shit, because I'm not trying to stop terrorism. But it's a perfect example of what happens when you trash talk someone's invisible friend- they get pissed off.

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