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Terror
It's an interesting point of view, I'm not sure I agree that they completely lack and fear love; but perhaps underestimate its true power. I think it's a common misconception, that love is "weak", when really - as you said - it will always win in the end. Sherurcij (speaker for the dead) 21:48, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Response: I am sure that it is commonly believed that terror is sociopathic. Given that, I can show you examples of sociopaths stating that pleasure and pain are the same, to they point where they believe that the two share brain regions. This is of course absurd, but interesting within its scope.--John Bessa (talk) 21:19, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

I would argue that terrorism, as a tactic, is not symptomatic of any sociopathy; sociopaths are generally defined as impulsive, lacking in self-control and anti-social, three traits I would suggest that al-Qaeda, the Red Army Faction and PFLP lack. Sherurcij (speaker for the dead) 21:33, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

I am afraid that you are in a tiny minority that apparently lives nearly entirely within the Internet in recent years.

Remember that the USA experienced the World Trade Center attack on September 11th, 2001. As it happens I was there. Life as we had known it had been "charmed." We, citizens of the most charitable nation in human history (which was led for a while by an exceedingly vicious and dishonest president--the lowest rated in US history), had to expand our understanding, but did so in the context of our primary recent scientific contribution: social science. As it happens, two years before the attack the important "empathic neurons," spindle and mirror cells, had been discovered, and during the early 2000s we easily reconciled this vicious attack in terms of neurology using these discoveries. Since then, these neurons have been found in most primates, elephants, and more advanced empathy neurons have been found in whales.

One question: you write on my talk page, yet consistently erase my writing on your talk page. Do you know why this is? If not, perhaps I can give you a clue.--John Bessa (talk) 00:05, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Because I save my talkpage for a listing of DYK articles, nothing else. Sherurcij (speaker for the dead) 00:20, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * This last statement of yours is called "rationalization," as in Heilein's statement that "man is not a rational animal but a rationalizing one."--John Bessa (talk) 01:00, 10 May 2009 (UTC)