Thomas Piketty: Clamping down with law and order will not be enough

Re:Thomas Piketty: Clamping down with law and order will not... by mikeash on Monday November 30, 2015 @04:04PM (#10651751)

Things don't have a single cause. "ISIS grew out of staggeringly unequal distribution of Mideast oil wealth" and "ISIS is motivated by extreme interpretations of Islam" are able to coexist perfectly well.

Do you have any examples of "the same people" being inconsistent here? Because usually when people complain about inconsistency like this, it's actually different people being mentally categorized together, not actually the same people.

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Re:Thomas Piketty: Clamping down with law and order will not... by nickpsecurity on Monday November 30, 2015 @04:12PM (#10651826)

Last sentence is an excellent point. This is a group of groups of groups. Acting like ISIS is one entity with one set of attributes is like claiming the same for the workforce of a city. They're one thing in one way with similar goals, direction, and activities but substantially different in other ways.

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Re:Thomas Piketty: Clamping down with law and order will not... by notacoward on Monday November 30, 2015 @04:19PM (#10651872)

Unbelievably well stated. Kudos.

(And I get downvoted for saying something nice? Some people have way too much invested in the opposing POV, and way too little courage.)

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Re:Thomas Piketty: Clamping down with law and order will not... by scott_karana on Monday November 30, 2015 @07:10PM (#10652837)

> And I get downvoted for saying something nice? Some

HN (and possibly its rules) frowns on "+1" or "I agree" style posts that don't add additional content to a discussion, and people will sometimes downvote you accordingly.

Hopefully that's all that the downvoting was...

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