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changing situations

how a person behaves in a given situation depends on nothing other than those ideas

So changing people's situations is the answer. This seems to me to be the prime motive of the war; changing the situations that enable the enaction of terrorist ideas (as Blixa says). You can change people's situations: what can't be done is persuading people of different ideas when their situations render them deaf.

The situation than most helps the growth of terrorist ideas, is terrorist states (states which terrorise their own people). The situation which is worst for terrorism is democracy, because the process of debate enables good ideas to gain ascendancy. The primary target in the war is not bad ideas themselves, but the systems which are obstacles to the growth of ideas in general.

Alice

by a reader on Mon, 09/06/2004 - 03:01

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