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I think it scares people to think that if circumstances were different, they could be participating in terrorist suicides. The spped with which evolution from the evaluation that much terrorism in Europe was a result of narcissistic 'splitting' to that which states that most terrorists are not emotionally or mentally disturbed occured is remarkable.

In my opinion, people will always prefer arguments that criminals and terrorists and their like suffer from a kind of disease which 'normal' members of the public would never have.

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PS: NDD, if I'm understanding what you're saying, IMO the exception becomes the rule when the circumstances change to permit it. From my reading it seems that the most promising explanations of terrorism are primarily environmental/circumstantial and then become 'group dynamic' (group think, inward pressure etc). If the circumstances which existed to create the minority terrorist group evolve to create a majority terrorist group, the exception has become the rule. JMO.