ISIS, and the theroy that all they need are jobs.

[jollyreaper2112]

29. There's always going to be psychos out there

The question is whether the psychos are able to indulge. You take a look at any situation where normal society is pushed to extremes, you'll see where the psychos come out. Take a bunch of draftees and put them in a war, you'll see who comes up with the idea of taking ears off the dead. They're probably the guys who would have ended up in jail over some psycho shit if that war had never happened. Now the situation may push normal people to have to kill and kill ugly at that but they never would have sought the situation out. They'd never have thought of robbing an old couple in the first place. But the psycho, he's the one who will not only be robbing the couple but decide to start cutting on them, too.

Now, in the normal course of events, that psycho is going to get caught and put in jail. In wartime? That kind of shit is useful for the brass, here's a soldier who will fight. Psycho shit becomes normalized. Psycho shit becomes part of the program for a large organization of people rather than just the aberrant behavior of one lunatic.

If there wasn't an ISIS, the worst of the jihadi fucks would be in jail in their homelands. We're talking the nuts who can't control their own violent urges. The opportunistic psychos, they're the ones who have enough control to not risk bad behavior for fear of consequences. Put them in an environment where they can indulge their worst impulses and suffer no consequences, they'll act out.

There's a lot of nice, normal people who have been pushed too far and are providing the support that keeps the terrorists in the field. That's the way it works in these cases. Irish-Americans sending money back to the IRA, British muslims supporting the idea of jihad, Americans of all stripes supporting the war on communism because it seemed right even though it mostly amounted to heaping piles of dead peasants in various third world shitholes...

I mean just think about it. In what sort of context could being able to saw the head off a struggling victim be considered a valuable job skill? Where in the fuck could this skill get you gainful employment? Zeta gangs in Mexico, ISIS in the Middle East. It's not a party trick that's going to impress anyone in a sane part of the world.