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July 20, 2007
Why terrorism does not work
Anders Sandberg writes a controversial article on Overcoming Bias of the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute.
In How Biases Save Us From Giving in to Terrorism Sandberg writes that terrorists run into the problem that people assume that the results of their actions are concordant with their intentions. Although the terrorist can state his demands and goals, people will tend to assume that he is just a sadist rationalising. Possibly a dangerous sadist one has to occasionally acquiesce to, but the goals are not seen as essential to him. His "real" goals are assumed to be the destruction of society, and this makes accepting demands less favorable.
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Posted by Waldemar at July 20, 2007 11:32 AM