Why Are So Many Terrorists Engineers?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/magazine/12FOB-IdeaLab-t.html?adxnnl=1&smid=fb-share&src=tp&adxnnlx=1322359302-6eZbSJNgzYpgp/8Xp2mWhQ

by w43l • 15 years ago

5 3 15 years ago

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bluekeybox• 15 years ago

Horrible article that somehow tries to make a distinction between left- and right-wing terrorism while there is none, and then uses that presumed distinction to support its point of view while there could be plenty of other reasons why, for example, there were no engineers in the Baader-Meinhof gang.

The psychology of young men who are resentful, antisocial, borderline delusional, and prefer violence to other means of political influence is so similar that attempts to make a distinction between the left and the right come out as either laughable or politically motivated.

mtraven• 15 years ago

I took a try at a theory of this: http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-do-engineers-... Short summary: it's due to the historical intermediate and uncertain class status of engineering as a profession.

gwern• 15 years ago

http://lesswrong.com/lw/18b/reason_as_memetic_immune_disorde...

Why Are So Many Terrorists Engineers?

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