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.

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[SakuraDreams]

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.

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[CAIMLAS]

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.