re: #323 stabby

You’re too hung up on the particular religious aspects of this and ignoring what ALLOWS fundamentalism to take hold. If a society is stable or at least offers stability, you will see less extremism.

Hell, gangs in this country sometimes do “community service” to protect their turf. It’s PR work. Successes in getting rid of those gangs come when you offer kids something better so the gangs don’t have the allure they otherwise would. Young men are particularly vulnerable to gangs when their own families are destabilized by poverty and drug addiction, gangs offer a family where none or a broken one exists. Fill that void, the gangs lose their hold over a community.