Brussels Rocked by Terrorist Attacks

Re:Brussels Rocked by Terrorist Attacks by Someone1234 on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @10:05AM (#11336655)

> There's absolutely nothing inevitable about these kinds of attacks. We could bring this sort of event down to a number real close to 0.

I don't think so.

Even if you exclude international politics completely the number still isn't zero. Take the 2011 Norway attacks where 77 people died. That was one guy, a Christian fundamentalist, likely paranoid schizophrenic who wanted to rid the world of Marxism/feminism/islam/something. Then you have the unabomber, most school shootings, and so on which you can point to.

My point is: This stuff is NEVER going away. All you can do is minimise it. Zero is certainly a laudable goal but likely an unachievable one.

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Re:Brussels Rocked by Terrorist Attacks by ptaipale on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @11:19AM (#11337200)

Labeling Breivik as a Christian fundamentalist serves a political need, but if we really have to attribute to a religion what he did, he was more like a pagan fundamentalist ("Odinist") who expressed his belief that Jesus was "pathetic".

Edit: However I agree with the part that this is never going to go away (completely). You cannot totally prevent terror, and living in a society that could would be terror itself.

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Re:Brussels Rocked by Terrorist Attacks by brudgers on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @11:17AM (#11337187)

The parent comment uses the phrase "close to zero".

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