YouFearGalvatron wrote:1. You still don't know what a terrorist cell is, I submit this for further reading:
Actually, I do and nothing I have said suggests they're anything other than what you just pointed out.
Unless you think I missed your point about them being covert in which case I didn't.
I just disagreed when you said they want acceptance and to appear as a peaceful religion.
They do not, they just hide among those who are.
What they want is to be called up and allowed to further the damage that is already done.
YouFearGalvatron wrote:3. Comparing an overt organization like the mob, to a COVERT organization like a terrorist cell is like comparing an extrovert with an introvert
You're missing the point.
I'm not comparing the two in anything other than they do something not with the aim of doing it, but with the aim of achieving something else as a result.
It's like the difference between a man who shoots someone because he wants them dead, and shotting them because dead OR alive, the shooting sends a message to someone else.
YouFearGalvatron wrote:But if a green dog bites you, or you see it bite someone else, you tend to develop a distrust of all things green dog.
It is human nature.
It is called ADAPT OR DIE.
That's not completely true.
If you're bitten by a green dog, and you have little experience with green dogs, this is true.
If on the other hand you have years of experience with green dogs and know how seldom they attack, you don't tar all green dogs with the same brush.
Unless of course, the green dog is a species that's known for regularly attacking.
Adapting is one thing, making uninformed assumptions about a threat and living your life based on that is called paranoia.
Also, like I said, I'd rather die being true to all I believed than live having betrayed that, even if a little.
YouFearGalvatron wrote:If you refuse to change with the times, you will be decimated. That is what 9/11 taught us.
9/11 was the first attack on US soil but it's not the first terrorist attack ever.
Whilst the scale was unheard of, the message is old to every other country in the world.
The IRA killed HUNDREDS of people with attacks on UK mainland civillian areas.
It was adapt or die then too.
We refused because we weren't going to let a bunch of terrorists change us and we won.
Tell yourself there's no choice all you want but history has shown that there is.
YouFearGalvatron wrote:And speaking of "ignoring", you ignored my earlier post as well, it said I WAS in counter-intel.
Okay, I said are as opposed to was, that doesn't change anything, you should still know the difference between motive and method.
As for agreeing to disagree, I thought that's what we do here, discuss things.
Discussion is about the exchange of ideas and beliefs that seldom see people agreeing, not trying to force them on other people.
Once again, as with the assumptions about my views, assumptions on my experience in survivial and assumptions about my knowledge or lack of on matters such as this, assuming I'm "forcing" my ideas on to you couldn't be further from the truth.
But then I guess if I came across as a "green human" or whatever group you put people in, your mind was made up no matter what the reality is.
I mean I agreed with some points you made (that we shouldn't apologise for things etc), but because I disagreed in other ways you pushed me into one of your generalisations and put us at polar opposites of an argument.
Applied to real life, that's not called adapting to survival, that's called creating conflict where there is none, making enemies out of friends just to create an illusion of safety.
You don't have to be "PC" to see that's the weirdest, most counter productive damn survival technique there is.