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November 4, 2005
UK: Theodore Dalrymple on Suicide Bombers
Theodore Dalrymple is a British Psychiatrist and essayist. He specializes on the mindset of the underclass. I have some minor disagreements with his latest essay, but hey, he is the Psychiatrist, so I'll just present it without further commentary: The Suicide Bombers Among Us
[...]The mere contemplation of a suicide bomber's state of mind is deeply unsettling, even without considering its practical consequences. I have met a would-be suicide bomber who had not yet had the chance to put his thanatological daydream into practice. What could possibly have produced as embittered a mentality as his-what experience of life, what thoughts, what doctrines? What fathomless depths of self-pity led him to the conclusion that only by killing himself and others could he give a noble and transcendent meaning to his existence?
Posted by Ruy Diaz at November 4, 2005 7:28 AM
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