It does.Hugo wrote: Mon Oct 09, 2023 1:11 amDoes it?David in Gwent wrote: Sun Oct 08, 2023 9:16 pm. Terrorism also exists because of extreme beliefs in all kinds of subjects and NOT just because political policy and diplomacy fails.
By my reckoning: Terrorist groups can only really sustain themselves when they have a decent amount of support from their constituents. That support can only really manifest when living conditions are intolerable for the average Joe. Most people are just too lazy and too engaged with surviving day to day to be so heavily invested in political and religious extremism imo. Extremism is a function of poverty whereby people feel they have nothing to lose.
Religious extremism doesn't need to rely the support of the masses, it's just takes a few individuals. Tell a few individuals that something happened and that the only response is to kill the people responsible, it's nothing to do with poverty and nothing to do with what they can lose, it's to do with manipulation, ideology and the fact that people have the ability to be downright evil.