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Duck-I-Says posted...

Questionable. I believe that this is the end and after death you're gone forever. Many suicide bombers believe they'll be sent to an eternal paradise where all their dreams come true. If I believed that I'd be far less worried about dying.

A valid consideration, certainly, but that's introducing additional variables. There's no reason somebody ramming a car into a crowd or bashing somebody's head in with a lock-sock can't also believe that death will send them to an eternal paradise, nor that a suicide bomber can't commit their attack without such beliefs. Based on where most suicide bombings are happening in the current world, most of them do indeed have that religious component, but if you strip that away and say all other things are equal, suicide bombing is braver than any other offensive because the attacker knows for certain that they won't survive.

Duck-I-Says posted...

You're right about attacking people in public not being cowardly, though, but it's pretty amusing this political s***post has turned into a semantic debate about an aspect that doesn't really matter that much.

I'm trying to teach a lesson about sensationalism, and the importance of reporting things neutrally instead of trying to emotionally manipulate your audience. Namely that, if you're going to try to emotionally manipulate your audience, at least keep the facts straight so you don't look like an overemotional idiot.
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