where's martin's? Boston bomber on the cover of the Rolling Stones

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Originally Posted by airshifter

But then again people even within a country often seem "normal" until they snap and do something violent.

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I'm afraid I'm this kind of person and I kid you not.
However now I have hope that at least BDunnell would try to understand my motivation. :p

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Originally Posted by gadjo_dilo

I'm afraid I'm this kind of person and I kid you not.
However now I have hope that at least BDunnell would try to understand my motivation. :p

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BDunnell advances a clear concise argument. The fact that people live within our communities leading a secret life but outwardly appear normal is and should be of interest to everyone with the intelligence that causes curiosity for one to investigate why these things happen.

There was a time when it was deemed that every person with a psychopathic personality was a murderer. Nothing farther from the truth. Being inquisitive means learning. There are few and they are becoming less and less frequent of ideas that are absolutely black and white. For instance Global Warming or if you prefer, climate change. There were some not to long ago that could not grasp the fact that Helium is created by Hydrogen. How could a gas such as Hydrogen create an inert gas? Simple answer. It can.
Rolling Stone did the correct thing and it is made abundantly clear in the article. Airshifter should read it and then would understand why it was sanctioned.

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Originally Posted by gadjo_dilo

I'm afraid I'm this kind of person and I kid you not.
However now I have hope that at least BDunnell would try to understand my motivation. :p

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Everyone can at some point snap and do something not usually in their nature. But if you were to snap and reduce yourself to taking random life, I'll gladly admit I won't try to justify is a a rational decision. But if it makes you feel better, I wouldn't try to justify such actions if a family member did such things either.

So really I'm treating you just like family. :)

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Originally Posted by airshifter

Everyone can at some point snap and do something not usually in their nature. But if you were to snap and reduce yourself to taking random life, I'll gladly admit I won't try to justify is a a rational decision. But if it makes you feel better, I wouldn't try to justify such actions if a family member did such things either.

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But that's a rather different argument from the one you were putting forward before, isn't it? Now you seem to be saying that not all actions can be rationalised — which I believe is correct — rather than contending that there is no point trying to understand.

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

Not every eventuality can be legislated for, nor acted against.

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The first part of your statement is very true. The second one is questionable. You may choose to be that careless, but I'd rather take precautions if I knew that my or somebody else's actions might eventually harm anybody.

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

And misleading? In what way, exactly? I fail to see from your description.

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Celebrities are cool. A terrorist is a celebrity. Being a terrorist is cool. That's the message of the article in question based on direct Aristotelian logic.

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Originally Posted by Rudy Tamasz

Celebrities are cool.

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Are they? :confused:


I can name a few who aren't.....

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Originally Posted by airshifter

So really I'm treating you just like family. :)

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Ohhhh....That's really sweet..... :p

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Originally Posted by gadjo_dilo

Are they? :confused:

I can name a few who aren't.....

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I'm just trying to logically parse what media feed us.

You may want to watch "Almost Famous", a nice and light-hearted story about rock stars, journalists and the Rolling Stone, to better understand how the cult of celebrities emerges.

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Originally Posted by Rudy Tamasz

I'm just trying to logically parse what media feed us.

You may want to watch "Almost Famous", a nice and light-hearted story about rock stars, journalists and the Rolling Stone, to better understand how the cult of celebrities emerges.

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To be a celebrity means to have some kind of notoriety. A notorious guy like let's say Kim Jong Un is hardly perceived like cool.

I'm mostly talking about the celebrities of the Rolling Stone bunch, i.e. movie actors, musicians, artists, socialites etc. Oh yeah, and now terrorists...