Comments on: Are suicide bombers mentally ill? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/06/are-suicide-bombers-mentally-ill.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Timhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/06/are-suicide-bombers-mentally-ill.html#comment-76662 Tim Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:35:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/06/are-suicide-bombers-mentally-ill.html#comment-76662 They've reached a point where the alternative to blowing themselves up looks impossibly hard.<br/><br/>First, they will have to disappoint their peers and leaders in the cult.<br/><br/>Then, they will have to suffer the blow to their identity/ego that comes with realizing their belief system is flawed.<br/><br/>Then, they will have to come to terms with the parts of their life that made them unhappy to begin with. <br/><br/>Then they face hard work: They have to pay rent, and buy food, study, earn, have adult relationships, compromise. <br/><br/>compare all that to a glorious ending that punishes the very people they perceive as getting ahead at the expense of their entitlements as middle class arab males.<br/><br/>Mentally Ill? No, more like emotionally stunted whiny arab middle class babies that took a wrong turn on the road to adulthood. They’ve reached a point where the alternative to blowing themselves up looks impossibly hard.

First, they will have to disappoint their peers and leaders in the cult.

Then, they will have to suffer the blow to their identity/ego that comes with realizing their belief system is flawed.

Then, they will have to come to terms with the parts of their life that made them unhappy to begin with.

Then they face hard work: They have to pay rent, and buy food, study, earn, have adult relationships, compromise.

compare all that to a glorious ending that punishes the very people they perceive as getting ahead at the expense of their entitlements as middle class arab males.

Mentally Ill? No, more like emotionally stunted whiny arab middle class babies that took a wrong turn on the road to adulthood.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/06/are-suicide-bombers-mentally-ill.html#comment-76648 Anonymous Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:48:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/06/are-suicide-bombers-mentally-ill.html#comment-76648 <i>Strapping a bomb on you back and blowing yourself (and others) up is your idea of the spectrum of "normative" behavior? You're delusional.</i><br/><br/>Clueless. You should leave the discussion to the adults and go back to playtime.<br/><br/>This behavior is considered normative by those that engage in it (as well as the society that they live in). They have a rather silly belief in their flying spaghetti monster (like most Americans have in their idols)that leads them to the conclusion that engaging in violent Jihad against the Kaffir will ensure their place in paradise. Strapping a bomb on you back and blowing yourself (and others) up is your idea of the spectrum of “normative” behavior? You’re delusional.

Clueless. You should leave the discussion to the adults and go back to playtime.

This behavior is considered normative by those that engage in it (as well as the society that they live in). They have a rather silly belief in their flying spaghetti monster (like most Americans have in their idols)that leads them to the conclusion that engaging in violent Jihad against the Kaffir will ensure their place in paradise.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/06/are-suicide-bombers-mentally-ill.html#comment-76643 Anonymous Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:02:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/06/are-suicide-bombers-mentally-ill.html#comment-76643 Not everyone who is nuts or acts crazy is mentally ill. <br/><br/>A more everyday example. Someone cuts me off on the interstate. If get pissed, speed up, flip them the bird, and cut them off, that is nuts, it is stupid, it is crazy. . . but it does not make me mentally ill. Not everyone who is nuts or acts crazy is mentally ill.

A more everyday example. Someone cuts me off on the interstate. If get pissed, speed up, flip them the bird, and cut them off, that is nuts, it is stupid, it is crazy. . . but it does not make me mentally ill.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/06/are-suicide-bombers-mentally-ill.html#comment-76610 Anonymous Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:18:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/06/are-suicide-bombers-mentally-ill.html#comment-76610 " certain aspects of the spectrum of normative behavior as being an illness"<br/><br/>Strapping a bomb on you back and blowing yourself (and others) up is your idea of the spectrum of "normative" behavior? You're delusional. ” certain aspects of the spectrum of normative behavior as being an illness”

Strapping a bomb on you back and blowing yourself (and others) up is your idea of the spectrum of “normative” behavior? You’re delusional.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/06/are-suicide-bombers-mentally-ill.html#comment-76590 Anonymous Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:11:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/06/are-suicide-bombers-mentally-ill.html#comment-76590 Not mentally ill. Brainwashed and coerced. Peer pressure at its very worst. Not mentally ill. Brainwashed and coerced. Peer pressure at its very worst.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/06/are-suicide-bombers-mentally-ill.html#comment-76580 Anonymous Sat, 23 Jun 2007 06:37:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/06/are-suicide-bombers-mentally-ill.html#comment-76580 Of course not. What an utterly silly hypothesis to consider in the first place. It is only the sickness of modern Western psychiatry and clinical psychology that attempts to classify the certain aspects of the spectrum of normative behavior as being an illness. The norms for other cultures are substantially different than the societal and cultural norms of the secular West. Of course not. What an utterly silly hypothesis to consider in the first place. It is only the sickness of modern Western psychiatry and clinical psychology that attempts to classify the certain aspects of the spectrum of normative behavior as being an illness. The norms for other cultures are substantially different than the societal and cultural norms of the secular West.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/06/are-suicide-bombers-mentally-ill.html#comment-76570 Anonymous Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:21:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/06/are-suicide-bombers-mentally-ill.html#comment-76570 No, they're just misunderstood. No, they’re just misunderstood.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/06/are-suicide-bombers-mentally-ill.html#comment-76559 Anonymous Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:19:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/06/are-suicide-bombers-mentally-ill.html#comment-76559 Indeed, for the believer the cost-benefit ratio should have them lining up outside the door.<br/><br/>A few years more of life (likely to be nasty, brutish, and short) versus an eternity of carnal lust with 64 virgins (or whatever is the quoted number). If that's a genuine belief, then the calculus is a no-brainer. Indeed, for the believer the cost-benefit ratio should have them lining up outside the door.

A few years more of life (likely to be nasty, brutish, and short) versus an eternity of carnal lust with 64 virgins (or whatever is the quoted number). If that’s a genuine belief, then the calculus is a no-brainer.

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