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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Depending on who I'm talking to maybe, but considering it's you I think you just like the thought of karma too much to look at political violence objectively. You just get too much satisfaction out of seeing your oppressors die to calm down and ask yourself if this is actually productive.
Do you think that anyone's lives have actually been improved by the fallout of 9/11? Whether or not radical Islamists' goals are being achieved isn't the question, it's if humanity as a whole is better off for the violence. Millions of refugees fleeing their homes and Iraq and Afghanistan becoming destabilized warzones doesn't exactly sound like progress. It sounds like same **** different day.
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First part, fair point. I think I got my history straight but then again of course I do.
Second part- I was trying to argue that radicalism has a rightful place in social movements.
Big picture is the world a better place? No. I don’t think I could make that case.