08-18-2021, 06:51 PM
(08-18-2021, 06:40 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Sorry, I added a bit after you started this reply. I'm not playing Christians vs Muslims, I'm just saying that it's hard to compare which group is more likely to start an uprising when they reside in very different parts of the world with very different qualities of life. You can tell a country is getting prosperous when people would rather be alive than rush into the afterlife ASAP.
I'd say that's a product of people who might WANT to riot realizing that their day-to-day life is ok enough for them to "let someone else overthrow the tyrants." If/when the USA gets to the same point as Afghanistan you'll see people who believe all sorts of non-Muslim things going ape.
But that's the key point, isn't it? There are certainly people who would steal if there was no law against it, just as there are people who would engage in other criminal acts if not for fear of prosecution. The key difference between that and the Taliban, and other radical Islamists, is that a very specific ideology promotes, excuses and justifies the types of behavior we're seeing now in Afghanistan and pretty much every day in some parts of the Muslim world. To be sure, if society crumbles you'll see all sorts of hellish behavior excused by the actors for numerous reasons, but I think that's the same in any society. If the world structure you know is eroded to the point of dissolution the subsequent panic/stress/fear will promote awful behavior from even normally sane people. This is not what is happening in Afghanistan, or under Isis or in Iran. I could go on, but I trust you get the point.
