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Is this advocation of senior citizens expressing social and
political ideals through vigilanteism and suicide bombing?
Because I'm pretty
sure terrorism is not age-discriminatory, making this idea
not only terrible but also very likely baked. |
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<wanders away looking thoughtful, while mentally estimating just how much HMX can be concealed in a mobility scooter while still leaving room for a radio control system> |
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I imagine most sane elderly people have the same fear of pain/death as the young - it's a self-preservation thing. |
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Very poor idea - elderly protest suicide bombers [-] |
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If they're anything like my mother, by the time
they've strapped the explosives on they'll have
forgotten what they wanted to protest about. |
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[po] They may have the same fear of pain, but, as
regards death, YMMV. |
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stupid response! think about it. |
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my brother, 10 years my junior (in 1994) knew he was dying and thought it *exciting* in some way I cannot imagine. some 17 years later I still feel death at some unknown date scary... |
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your getting it all wrong I guess I didn't make it clear enough - the idea is about extremely old people who have retained their mental capacity and have a few decent years left, not some 67 year old. |
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And its bombing (not necessarily involving other people)
for issues that are relevant to the elderly that otherwise have no way of being heard, like raising age pensions, housing etc. |
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Setting off bombs has not been historically shown to be the
most effective way of getting a message across. Can
anyone here, without using wikipedia or any other outside
reference, recall the detailed agenda of the Unibomber, or
the specific stated objectives of the 9/11 attackers? I
sincerely doubt it. But I'll bet quite a few can tell us what
Martin Luther King, Jr. was advocating, or Susan B.
Anthony-- both people with bold, controversial messages,
neither of whom ever set off so much as a firecracker* to
promote those messages. |
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//feel death at some unknown date scary// |
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the elderly, got to be the elderly, by having an above average ability to NOT DIE. [-] |
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