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Originally Posted by Ammi
..yeah, that is one way of looking at it, I can see that and I’m sure that psychologists have and will continue to do so...and certainly they must have been ‘fearless’ to do what they did or at least be able to overcome what fears they may have had, which ‘brave’ people obviously do...but to me, being brave would be a ‘hero’ and maybe they are heroes to their cause, but that cause extinguished the lives of many people and devastated even more lives..not people who were enemies in a war/conflict situation, a survival situation but lives of people who were just living their day in the way they always did and their families who loved them, expected them to come home that evening...children that will never grow to know a parent..that for me is ‘understanding’ that is deserved... if that does them a disservice, then what understanding of psychology to the families of those people and what they were about to do to them did they show..their empathy/compassion/their humanity was lost and buried underneath their cause and for me, with that, their rights to be understood as well....to have any bravery at all, would have been to have looked into the eyes of the families of their victims...
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War crimes happen regardless. We unnecessarily bombed the ****** out of Germany at the end of WWII, wiping out tens, if not hundreds of thousands of innocent Germans out of spite, and those hijackers believed they were at war.
I'm not sticking up for them, because it was a terrible act, but trying to understand it should be our first course of action, rather than George Bush blanketing out - "they hate us for our freedoms".