re: #368 Slumbering Behemoth

FWIW, I do think that terrorist suicide-murderers are cowards, and I think Maher is wrong on this.

They do not engage in the act of suicide-murdering innocents with the full knowledge that it will be the end of their own lives, period, full stop. Nothing to follow.

They commit these acts convinced that they do not literally die, but that their eternal spirits get magically transported to a place of eternal delights.

Cowards.

I understand that, SB, and I do agree up to a point, but think about it this way: how useful is the belief that these people are cowards when it comes to predicting their behaviour? What sort of actions characterize cowardice? Throwing your life away while killing the enemy isn’t really one of them. But that is how these people behave. Fanatical suicidal murderous zealot is a more accurate, and more useful way of characterizing them in my view. I