What do we do about these attacks

Religion needs to go; plain and simple. At one time it served an important purpose and has in many ways shaped the world into what it is today. However, times have changed. We no longer need religion to explain our origins, or where we are going to go when we die, or explain how we should live our lives. Richard Dawkins once said "Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness." (By the way if you are ever looking for a book to read I would definitely recommend looking into his work.)

And now before people say, "Well it's just Islam" I say take a look back in history, you will find most every major religion at one time has been responsible for such acts. If a certain religion really did contain the absolute, then why do most religions look almost nothing like they did when they started. The danger of religion is it is up for personal interpretation. And as a result, things like this happen.

This world needs a set of universal uninterpretable morals before anything is going to get better.That; however, is not going to happen anytime soon, so as for now I think the best solution is to just blow to shit out of them.

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Putting boots on the ground and further bombing them is only going to cause the problem to get worse. There's a direct correlation between the number of Islamic terrorists attacks and the amount of time troops spend in the middle east. Basically it's either wipe out every middle easterner or financially drain IS through their dealing in oil on the black market. But that's my opinion anyways.

Could sanction the fuck out of them economically??? Might work,

It's unfortunate that it's come to this, that we have created such a monster in Isis, that globally we need to vigilantly hunt the extremists down and eradicate them,and swiftly, a global witch hunt. And when we're done we to leave that part of the globe alone and stop supporting them economically.

Every religion has its extremes.

The KKK.
Orthodox man stabs 6 people at gay pride rally. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-33726634
Obviously Islamic extremists
Christians http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/10-worst-terror-attacks-extreme-christians-and-far-right-white-men
The issue is religion itself.


Can we really do anything? I just can't think of any way to stop every person from executing (pun intended) their religious beliefs.

El_ChapoEvery religion has its extremes.

The KKK.
Orthodox man stabs 6 people at gay pride rally. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-33726634
Obviously Islamic extremists
Christians http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/10-worst-terror-attacks-extreme-christians-and-far-right-white-men
The issue is religion itself.


Can we really do anything? I just can't think of any way to stop every person from executing (pun intended) their religious beliefs.

It'll take a lot of education and time. Probably wont happen in this generation or the next or 5 after that but eventually we'll get there. And you can sure bet science will be leading the way.

JustGoWithItIt'll take a lot of education and time. Probably wont happen in this generation or the next or 5 after that but eventually we'll get there. And you can sure bet science will be leading the way.

Very true.

There will always be pointless killing though. There is no "solution" that will magically stop people from taking extreme action on others. Killing is a natural charateristic of animals when they feel threatened.

honestly, there is no good answer to acts such as these

one who seeks to find rationale in something so irrational is irrational him/herself

bottom line, seeking and destroying won't solve the problem

I think we all just need to prepare and build up defense

The.Natty.VeganPutting boots on the ground and further bombing them is only going to cause the problem to get worse. There's a direct correlation between the number of Islamic terrorists attacks and the amount of time troops spend in the middle east. Basically it's either wipe out every middle easterner or financially drain IS through their dealing in oil on the black market. But that's my opinion anyways.

And it's an unwinnable war. So we go back into Iraq, kick them out of there best we can back into Syria, then what? Invade Syria too? We'll just be chasing these guys around the Middle East indefinitely, further fueling their cause.

Theres no easy solution to this if there even is a solution.

Problem, reaction, solution.

The.Natty.VeganPutting boots on the ground and further bombing them is only going to cause the problem to get worse. There's a direct correlation between the number of Islamic terrorists attacks and the amount of time troops spend in the middle east. Basically it's either wipe out every middle easterner or financially drain IS through their dealing in oil on the black market. But that's my opinion anyways.

Or we could just stop arming and training them. That would be a great start.

mrleheyOk so I know there's been so many different opinions in what has happened in the past 48 hours. I've heard terrorism has no religion, Muslims are not terrorist! Personally I agree and disagree. I know a lot of Muslim people and have Muslim friends. I know that almost every Muslim person out there feels just as bad about these events that we do. But if terrorism really has no religion how come almost every act of terrorism performed by a radical Islam has been in the name of their God, their religion? We can't escape this. It'll keep happening, people are living in fear. Imagine if a school was bombed by ISIS parents wouldn't send their kids to school. Now here's the real question. What do we do? Who's gonna make the decision? It's happening all over the world. What do we do? I fear that the only way out of this is our worst fear.

Terrorism has been a frequent occurrence for thousands of years. You can not completely put an end to terrorism but you can hinder it. To instill fear is a more easily controlled populace, ISIS was in part a creation of the west and putting boots in Syria is exactly what the West wanted for quite sometime. In 2013 it was the Sarin gas attacks that were allegedly orchestrated by the Assad Regime, however, the UN discovered that it was in fact the moderate rebels and not Assad. This was suppose to be the ostensible pretext for military involvement, as long as the narrative supported the claims of the US government. If we put boots in Syria the primary goal will never be to defeat ISIS. This is exactly like WMD’s in Iraq, except there’s a known threat and we in part created that threat. Problem, reaction, solution. Oldest trick in the book.

JustGoWithItReligion needs to go; plain and simple. At one time it served an important purpose and has in many ways shaped the world into what it is today. However, times have changed. We no longer need religion to explain our origins, or where we are going to go when we die, or explain how we should live our lives. Richard Dawkins once said "Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness." (By the way if you are ever looking for a book to read I would definitely recommend looking into his work.)

And now before people say, "Well it's just Islam" I say take a look back in history, you will find most every major religion at one time has been responsible for such acts. If a certain religion really did contain the absolute, then why do most religions look almost nothing like they did when they started. The danger of religion is it is up for personal interpretation. And as a result, things like this happen.

This world needs a set of universal uninterpretable morals before anything is going to get better.That; however, is not going to happen anytime soon, so as for now I think the best solution is to just blow to shit out of them.

JustGoWithItIt'll take a lot of education and time. Probably wont happen in this generation or the next or 5 after that but eventually we'll get there. And you can sure bet science will be leading the way.

You think a viable solution is to ban all religon? seriously? you think thats viable? Are you that dumb? Or is that just an emotional, irrational response?