He's a tricky one because his protests weren't irrational. He reminds me of D-Fens in the film Falling Down. There are commonalities in the lives of people who become terrorists (without coercion) and people who become despots and you see it with McVeigh too. You could almost predict it. But nobody cared enough.
So we have two ways of dealing with it. Either we let him kill scores of innocent people and then we kill him too. Or we put some effort into recognising the danger ahead of time, help him realise his method of protesting isn't the right way, and nobody dies. I know the latter is difficult, requires some intrusion into our lives if we have set off a few warning bells, and is kind of against the freedom I'd rather us have. But ultimate freedom does me no good if someone kills me before I can enjoy it.
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He's a tricky one because his protests weren't irrational. He reminds me of D-Fens in the film Falling Down. There are commonalities in the lives of people who become terrorists (without coercion) and people who become despots and you see it with McVeigh too. You could almost predict it. But nobody cared enough.
So we have two ways of dealing with it. Either we let him kill scores of innocent people and then we kill him too. Or we put some effort into recognising the danger ahead of time, help him realise his method of protesting isn't the right way, and nobody dies. I know the latter is difficult, requires some intrusion into our lives if we have set off a few warning bells, and is kind of against the freedom I'd rather us have. But ultimate freedom does me no good if someone kills me before I can enjoy it.