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Originally Posted by Brutha  I don't think that is a good explanation of why terrorists do what they do.
After people do what they do they justify it with some sort of philosophical explanation but the philosophical explation doesn't cause the action.
If philosophical explanations would cause action you would see people who study ethics behave more ethically than people who don't. |
Knowing and believing are two different things. People who study ethics do exactly that; they study ethics. Does a man that studies animals become more like an animal? Terrorists don't study or question, they just believe. They have a reason for everything. Those reasons may contradict each other and be covered up by hollow justifications, but they are built on some kind of reasoned structure with some basic core beliefs. In a way it is the opposite of what people that study ethics do. An ethicist can study ethics without becoming ethical, and terrorists can be what they consider "ethical" without studying the actual ethics of what they are doing. The ethicist can know but not believe, and the terrorist can believe without knowing.