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Teacher Asks Students To Plan a Terrorist Attack
Tired of looking at an endless parade of dioramas, an Australian teacher had her class plan a terrorist attack that would "kill as many innocent Australians as possible." "The teacher, with every best intention, was attempting to have the students think through someone else's eyes about conflict. I think there are better ways to do that. ... This is not what we expect of professional educators," said Sharyn O'Neill, director-general of the state's Department of Education.
Next lesson, "How to plan the perfect child abduction", and following that, "Rape and murder, picking your victim and disposing of the body afterward". Got to prepare the children in case they will need any of these skills in the future.
What about teaching students to hack into computer systems? That's fairly common and fairly well accepted...and in those exercises it's not just a 'think of a way to do this', it's a 'here is a server, here is a PC, go do it'.
By the way, are you suggesting we say to the students 'here is a bunch of people, here is a chainsaw, go do it'?
there are plenty of countries in africa with child soldiers. So why don't you just move there? Or are you too much of a pussy to live in a country with child soldiers?
I'm sorry, but how much "empathy" can you realistically hold for an enemy which, by preference, targets non-military targets, instead seeming to prefer targets of ideological opportunity which result in the highest shock factor, almost invariably being targeted at civilians?
If I'm having a feeling of "empathy" with those people, would it not be likely that I'd be prone to develop a preference for that kind of attack myself? Would that not identify an ideological affinity?
There's a word for that. It's "traitor", or maybe "murderer" if you go through with it.
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for what reason would these people restrict their wars to those regions ? Especially with the "progressive" view on immigration prevalent these days. (funny how progressives evolved from 'kill all foreignors' to the exact opposite in about 40 years, yet claim that there has never been a change in their position and that their past consists of people totally alien to them that deserve to get shot on sight)
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Other than outlawing freedom of religion, and directly attack and destroy any ideology causing "too serious" problems, I have no clue how you could get a solution to this.